r/news • u/PlayaSlayaX • 1d ago

Mexico tests cellphone app allowing migrants to send alert if they are about to be detained in US

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-app-migrants-deportations-consulates-09655e742f2918803881a32620e384ef
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u/InfiniteVastDarkness 1d ago

Fascinating. The Mexican government doesn’t care that its people can’t be educated or gain employment there, but they care if someone in the US is about to be detained?

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u/Thor4269 1d ago

The alert might allow the Mexican government to request the person be deported into their possession by name

Since it contacts the Mexican consulate automatically as well

As opposed to ending up in detention/labor camps

He said the app would allow users to press a tab that would send an alert notification to previously chosen relatives and the nearest Mexican consulate. De la Fuente described it as a sort of panic button.

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u/Pyro919 1d ago

Not new at all.