UN Mexico tests cellphone app allowing migrants to send alert if they are about to be detained in US - The move is in response to President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to carry out mass deportations after he takes office on Jan. 20.

Migrants stand in line to board a bus after being deported from the U.S. side back to Matamoros, Mexico, May 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Mexico is developing a cellphone app that will allow migrants to warn relatives and local consulates if they think they are about to be detained by the U.S. immigration department, a senior official said Friday.

The move is in response to President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to carry out mass deportations after he takes office on Jan. 20.

The app has been rolled out for small-scale testing and “appears to be working very well,” said Juan Ramón de la Fuente, Mexico’s secretary of foreign affairs.

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.

“In case you find yourself in a situation where detention is imminent, you push the alert button, and that sends a signal to the nearest consulate,” he said.

U.S. authorities are obliged to give notice to home-country consulates when a foreign citizen is detained. Mexico says it has beefed up consular staff and legal aid to help migrants in the legal process related to deportation.

De la Fuente expects the app to be rolled out in January. He didn’t say whether the app has a de-activation tab that would allow someone to rescind an alert if they weren’t really detained.

The government says it has also set up a call center staffed 24 hours a day to answer migrants’ questions.

The Mexican government estimates there are 11.5 million migrants with some form of legal residency in the United States, and 4.8 million without legal residency or proper documents.

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[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

Yeah I'm not sure what this is supposed to accomplish. The consulate is gonna send a strongly worded email to ICE telling them they can't deport the illegal immigrant?

This sounds like retarded bullshit

 

[BobbyBriggs69420]

I'm going to install this app and set it off randomly.

Mexican consulates are going to be confused when they think deportations are starting and get alerts for a thousand different Pedro Shekelsteins all at once.

Ay-yi-yi! ~rubs fat belly~

 

[Standardized Profile]

That's a foreign government. A corrupt shithole's government at that. Why would you allow them to participate in your legal system at all?

Because we have diplomatic relations with them and access to consular assistance is a well-established custom.

 

[King George III]

start bombing every cartel and federal (but I repeat myself) stronghold,

Make Shock & Awe Great Again.

 

[UnfOrtuNatE BaskEtt]

My names are Senorita Juanita Gonzales, Muchacho-Fabio Hernandez, Maria-Belen Lopez-Vasco and Senor Miquel de la Fortaleza-Fonesca de las Nieves de la Sierra del Conjo de tu Madre...among others...I am going to send an alert every day with my 20 Messikano aliases....will they send International Rescue to extract me?

Or there's always the "Paging Mr Hamas" option....where you identify each phone that has the app, and send them an explosive text, or use the app to hunt them down...on horseback....with lassos...n shit...

 

[TowinKarz]

Mexico is providing legal aid to migrants being deported.

They can't possibly provide it to everyone who hits the button, they don't have the money or the competency to be anything more than a roadblock. Or rather just a potential roadblock. Which is what they want.

They hope this just makes it too darn hard and we give up, because they don't want to deal with the problem either.

This kind of "threat" would've worked 30 years ago, but, everyone is well past the breaking point now. Its no longer about optics, its about getting results.

You're gonna take them back and you're gonna like it.

 

[Marvin]

Just tell Google Play and AppStore to remove it from their platforms.

No, subpoena Google and Apple and get a convenient list of every illegal in the country.

 

[King George III]

This kind of "threat" would've worked 30 years ago, but, everyone is well past the breaking point now.

For a country that has no integrated air defense network and just a few very old fighter aircraft, they're acting rather ballsy.

 

[kim foxx]

For a country that has no integrated air defense network and just a few very old fighter aircraft, they're acting rather ballsy.

they don't need it when they're 30% of your country already by ethnic origin. america can bomb asia and the middle east consequence free. bombing mexico just results in a dirty war in texas and potential reprisals everywhere in the heartland.

 

[not william stenchever]

Because we have diplomatic relations with them and access to consular assistance is a well-established custom.

Maybe, since they've let their so called nation fall into feudalistic warfare between cartels, we should stop considering them a real nation because they certainly don't consider themselves as such.

 

[King George III]

bombing mexico just results in a dirty war in texas and potential reprisals everywhere in the heartland.

I honestly just want it to happen, which hopefully would cause my corrupt state government to do something so outrageously seditious, that the federal government has no choice but to step in and remove them. Gimme those rainbows.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Just put an ICE checkpoint in front of the consulates and round them up as they arrive.

 

[FieldPiece]

All Trump has to do is end all Corn exports to Meheeco and the entire country will starve to death because food simply disappears to a meheecans vision if it isn't wrapped in corn. Kinda like Koalas and eucalyptus. In the end there will be but one meheecan left sitting on a throne of Xanax, Makers Mark, and tortas.

 

[Back me up!]

Make that app a felony to have installed.

Listen if the NSA can't track any phone that installs that app then what the hell are we doing here?

 

[LaxerBRO]

If only Mexico worked so hard to fix their corruption problems, deal with the drug gangs, or fix their fucking country.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Once again Mexico has been proven to be allied to criminals that harm the United States.

Which just further supports my opinion that we should stop recognizing that corrupt pile of cartels masquerading as a legitimate country, start bombing every cartel and federal (but I repeat myself) stronghold, and force the Mexican people to fix their country instead of fleeing to the United States and bringing their problems with them.

This is one war I can get behind. More people die to cartels every year in Mexico, than innocent people die of terrorism every year. Yet which region do we keep 'warring' with?

I say send the US in from above and the UK, Aus and NZ in from Falklands/Argentina and just Anglo the fuck out of South America.

 

[Nick Gars]

In the end there will be but one meheecan left sitting on a throne of Xanax, Makers Mark, and tortas.

And that meheecans name?
Ethan Oliver Ralph.

 

[Fishmalk Observer]

When they get deported they'll try to come back. Hence, i think all the deported meeheecan should get an implanted chip so they can be tracked. Set Elon on that since he has the tech and he needs to ammend for his Poo spergout

 

[KiwiFuzz2]

Because we have diplomatic relations with them and access to consular assistance is a well-established custom.

I've never needed assistance from the consulate when overseas, but isn't the general mission of the consulate to get their citizens re-patriated to their home country as painlessly as possible?

Like I'm looking on pages for various American consulates overseas and there's no "Whoops! I overstayed my French visa by three years and they're kicking me out! Can the US Ambassador personally interfere to allow me to stay in France indefinitely?"

Because lolno.

 

[oh no its pipkun]

You are a fool if you think this. The Mexican government wouldn't cooperate with the US on immigration enforcement unless they were forced to at gunpoint. They are doing this because they do not want millions of illegal migrants, many of whom are violent criminals, to get dropped back into their country for the exact same reason we want them the fuck out. Even a child could see this app was made for the sole purpose of disrupting immigration enforcement and tying them up in bureaucratic bullshit - see the part where it says the app would alert the nearest Mexican consulate in the event someone presses the panic button, and the part where it says Mexico is providing legal aid to migrants being deported.

whats the mexican consulate going to do? im guessing the same as the US which is "fuck all". Illegals are inherent flight risks so theres no bond to pay, theyre illegals so theres no pay to play prisoner swaps. best is a cheap lawyer which may delay deportion but by then we'll have deportation detention centers running, bare minimum hellscapes.