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.

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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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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.
They'd try to drag it to federal court and hope a Democrat-appointed judge blocks the deportation. Failing that, just applying legal resistance and gumming up the court docket with lawsuits to make the legal system waste time and money.
 
They'd try to drag it to federal court and hope a Democrat-appointed judge blocks the deportation. Failing that, just applying legal resistance and gumming up the court docket with lawsuits to make the legal system waste time and money.
And I say "Cute, let's see you keep up with 5 million active casefiles"

Though, a lot of the illegal immigrant problem is self-solving , just demonstrate you are serious and a lot of people are going to leave ahead of INS because they don't want to waste years in the court system as the defendant any more than I want to waste that time as the plaintiff.

We can stay angry longer than Mexico can stay defiant.
 
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They'd try to drag it to federal court and hope a Democrat-appointed judge blocks the deportation. Failing that, just applying legal resistance and gumming up the court docket with lawsuits to make the legal system waste time and money.
immigration is already federal and those being detained have orders of removal against them; their trials have been finished. there's nothing a consulate can do to gum up the removal. Sheinbaum can refuse accepting illegals wholesale but that'll trigger the tarriff war the effects of which isn't quite certain.
 
Boy wouldn't it be a shame if Trump's military actions against the cartels include the Mexican govrats who are owned by them?

Do it orange man, carpet bomb Mexico City, make Polk's dream a reality!
 
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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.
I was shitposting. It is plainly apparent that the purpose of this app is to bureaucratically gum up the US immigration system from Mexico's end, and slow any return of illegal immigrants to Mexico. But let's expand on my sarcastic remark and your point.

In the idealistic world taught about in middle-school and high-school civics classes, the legal aid provided by Mexico would consist of determining if the Mexicans detained are here in the in the country illegally, and if so, coordinating with the relevant US and Mexican authorities to make the deportation process as smooth and drama-free as possible. Or, if the Mexican so accused is here legally, help them with any paperwork or other legal necessities, so they can return to legally living here in the US.

For all the performative and insincere hand-wringing about Trump and racism, once deportations get underway, there will be racist retards who go blindly accusing anyone with swarthy skin of being an illegal immigrant, and there are going to be legal immigrants caught up in the mess. As much as I want to see the US's illegal immigration problems solved, I am somewhat worried about the risk of due process being cast aside to effect mass deportations, and people being wrongly deported on false accusations.

To come back from such an idealistic fantasy world, I remember a concept taught in college economics courses: incentives. Trump has covered this in his speeches in his most recent and previous presidential campaigns. The waves of illegal immigrants that have been flooding over the border have not been the best and brightest of the world, seeking the land of opportunity. Other countries have been dumping their dregs upon us -- see Trump's remarks about Venezuela emptying their prisons. These are people that their countries of origin do not want back. When you throw away your garbage, you don't want that garbage being thrown back into your home. You want it gone, and will do whatever you can to keep it gone. Right now, Mexico et. al. have every incentive to do everything they can to delay or prevent the return of people they were happy to get rid of.

There is no way this isn't financed and backdoor accessed by the CIA.
Backdoor accessed by the glowniggers, without a doubt, because that's just what glowniggers do, but funded? What do the glowniggers have to gain from helping Mexico delay deportations?
You're looking at this the wrong way. This is a glorious, live-updated database of the location of countless illegals. Get a nice hack into it without the spics noticing, and you'll have every illegal with the app broadcasting their location to ICE.
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Okay, this could be a reason for the feds to be secretly funding this, but I am still skeptical. We're still under Biden's supposed watch. The current crop of unsupervised federal departments don't seem to have any particular desire to enforce immigration laws, so I'm not sure why the glowniggers would be funding the creation of a trojan horse tool to aid ICE now. I can imagine that maybe, this is being offered as peace offering and propitiation to an incoming Trump in hopes that the assassination attempt won't get investigated. But that feels a little too retardedly naive, even for me.

Just tell Google Play and AppStore to remove it from their platforms.
This, or maybe go with @Shroom King's idea, and have the calls the app places to the Mexican Consulate be intercepted and re-routed to an ICE call center. For extra funny, have that call center be sub-contracted out to India, so all the saars calling in can be yelled at not to redeem.
 
This, or maybe go with @Shroom King's idea, and have the calls the app places to the Mexican Consulate be intercepted and re-routed to an ICE call center. For extra funny, have that call center be sub-contracted out to India, so all the saars calling in can be yelled at not to redeem.
That would be really mean.
Love it !
 
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The Mexican government wouldn't cooperate with the US on immigration enforcement unless they were forced to at gunpoint
Maybe that can be arranged. Realistically, what percentage of the Mexican border forces are also collecting a paycheck from one of the main drug cartels running drugs into the country? They're not really gangs so much as paramilitary forces and it takes money to establish that, why not bribe some government officials along the way.

Actually. The more I think about it. Having a collection of narcos organized into a paramilitary that the Mexican government either tolerates, is bought out by, or otherwise cannot control is enough justification to eminent domain 3 miles of land along the border, stand up razor-wire fences, and shower the middle of the barricade with anti-personnel mines. Fuck a border wall. If the Mexican government doesn't want to cooperate, there's always the 38th parallel option.
 
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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 foreign citizens are allowed to seek legal aid from their governments.
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.
Last time Mexico went to war with Texas it ended with the Mexican President fleeing from the battle he had been leading and being taken prisoner after disguising himself as a lowly enlistedman in a vain attempt to hide.

Not exactly that country's finest hour, which is why I hope they fucking do it again.
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At what point are we going to acknowledge that Mexico is an enemy state and has been for a long time? Just bomb all their cities into rubble and shoot any Ogro de las Americas that tries to come into our nation.
 
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