Given the increase in the arrests of Mexican immigrants lacking legal status in the United States, The Ministry of Foreign Relations (SRE) of Mexico promised to provide greater legal advice to denounce human rights violations detected in some detention centers.
During a press conference, Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente, announced that, the result of the raids made by the agents of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE), 1,641 Mexican Immigrants have been arrested in different US cities.
Therefore, from January 20 to August 20, Mexican consular authorities have made 6,326 visits to immigration detention centers.
“Mexico rejects those practices that criminalize migration or that attempt against human rights or put at risk the safety and well -being of our communities, ”he said.
In addition, 13 thousand legal advice to immigrant has been granted interested in knowing how to react when they were visited by ICE.
For its part, Roberto Velasco Álvarez, SRE official where he works as head of the Unit for North America mentioned that he later interviewed 118 Mexicans arrested in “Aligator Alcatraz”, a detention center located in the Everglades, in Florida, they realized that immigrants are in inadequate conditionswhich were already denounced to the US authorities.
“(There are) little adequate climatic conditions, that is, low temperatures; prolonged permanence due to delays in the registration processes and the dates of the audiences; a number of people detained that exceeds the capacity of the detention center. Sometimes, (there are) problems of lack of hygiene and limitations in the medical care that is offered,” he said.
In this regard, Vanessa Calva, General Director of Consular Protection and Strategic Planning, said that, with the aim of bringing a network of lawyers to the Mexican community the “External Legal Advisory Program” (Pale) (Pale)which has a budget of $ 13.6 million.
Under this approach More than 300 suppliers provide free legal advice and representation or low cost to Mexicans In the main areas of American law, more than half focused on immigration matters.
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