Mexico, July 9 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — Mexican immigrants in the United States are preparing for the raids announced by President Donald Trump, to counteract their negative effects, said Mary Moreno of the Texas Organizing Project.
According to statements to the press by the spokeswoman of that institution, Mexican nationals have increased their remittances to their homeland, to try to preserve savings from any type of Trump financial action, change of transfer routes, create support groups and even renationalize their children as natives of this country.
She said that tens of thousands of immigrants who reside in Houston, Texas, one of the target cities of raids by the large number of Mexicans who live there, are shielding themselves from the threats of the president, who historically uses border security as a standard for his electoral campaigns.
Moreno denounced that Trump does it to a large extent because it is his currency, it is his message to the Republicans, to his voters.
Organizing Project, an institution that protects the rights of immigrants in general, warned last week in tweets that Trump will use the Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport undocumented immigrants ‘as soon as they enter’ and called on Democrats in Congress to address the ‘border crisis’.
Trump said that immigration agents in that country plan to make mass arrests as of this week, an apparent reference to a plan that has been prepared for several months and points to a massive raid in major cities in the United States.
Fernando Garcia, of the Border Network for Human Rights, said Trump’s strategy against immigrants worked in 2016 when he spoke of the strengthening of the wall, including sending the prototypes to Tijuana so that his voters could see that he was serious.
However, García said, ‘deporting millions of people, as Trump suggested on Monday, requires great resources and the authorities are already busy with migrants who cross the border illegally, so we’ll see how many resources the congress gives for this.
The raids are focused throughout the country, but primarily in cities with high migrant population flows such as Miami, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Texas, and Los Angeles.
Organizations that defend the migrant and Hispanic population, will hold informative days and simulations to prevent action on these raids that are planned to take place in work centers, businesses and even against whoever violates a traffic rule, said García.
Although these seminars have been held in Houston in a systematic way, they will be extended to schools to warn about the actions that migrants could take.
In 2016, the US president promised to expel 12 million undocumented immigrants from the country.
People who receive deportation notifications have 30 days to return to their countries voluntarily or surrender to the authorities, spokesmen for the institution said. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA
