Mexico: Angry at Trump; Treating
Migrants as Badly (El Universal, Mexico)
"In
Mexico we all have someone in our families who has
been or is a migrant in the United States - and they are not rapists, nor are
they drug traffickers. Their only crime is to have aspirations for progress. …
Yet as we have lashed out against Trump, Mexico has displaced the United States
as the leading deporter of migrants in the world. …
Refugees and refuge: the aggravating fact is that we do the former better than
anyone in the world; and on the latter we have abdicated our responsibility
like never before."
By Senator Gabriela Cuevas*
Translated By Noelia Padron
October 26, 2005
Mexico
- El Universal - Original Article (Spanish)
We like to be angels on the street and devils at
home ... or in the region. When Donald Trump said that Mexico doesn't send its
best people to the United States: "Mexico sends people with a lot of
problems. And they bring those problems with them. They bring drugs. They bring
crime. They are rapists," all Mexicans were tearing their hair out. From
the president to our leading singer [Ricky Martin], from businessmen to
politicians, we all felt outraged - and targeted.
We hurt because we know, like few countries, that
a migrant is a parent with hopes higher than any wall; because we know that a
migrant is a mother who leaves her children in the care of her parents to
achieve a better future in the United States; because in Mexico we all have
someone in our families who has been or is a migrant in the United States - and
they are not rapists, nor are they drug traffickers. Their only crime is to
have aspirations for progress.
Yet as we have lashed out against Trump, Mexico
has displaced the United States as the leading deporter
of migrants in the world. The boundary separating migrants who manage to reach
their destination and those forced to return to their place of origin is no
longer the Rio Grande: it's Suchiate. According to
figures from the Migration Policy Institute, since 2010, Mexico has deported 80
percent of boys, girls and adolescent migrants, while the Unites States is
responsible for the remaining 20 percent.
While up north we demand that our girls, boys and
adolescent migrants be treated better, in the south we deport them with
ever-greater efficiency: of each 100 children detained in Mexico in 2014, 77
were deported to their country of origin; compare that to the United States,
where only three out of 100 were deported.
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While in the north we demand that our adult
migrants be treated well, in the south we deport them with ever-great
efficiency as well. From October 2014 to April 2015, Mexico detained 92,889
Central Americans to their home countries, while the United States detained
only 70,448 non-Mexican migrants.
While the number of Mexican refugees in the world
is growing (in 2014, the World Bank recorded 837,000 Mexicans for whom the
right to asylum has been granted), Mexico has cut the inflow of refugees to a
record low – and this, even as the world is experiencing a migrant crisis of
monumental proportions. Mexico has assumed a policy of minimal responsibility,
permitting only 270 refugees in 2013 and 451 in 2014, amongst which there were
a paltry 16 Syrians which included 35 children and two adolescents.
Brazil, on the other hand, has given visas to
8,000 Syrians and granted refugee status to 2,100 of them. Angels
on the street, devils in the region.
In New York on Sept. 30, Mexico chaired with great
pride a high level meeting on migration and refugees and used language that
seemed more European than ours: "economic migrants"; "immediate
deportation." Refugees and refuge: the aggravating fact is that we do the
former better than anyone in the world; and on the latter we have abdicated our
responsibility like never before.
*Gabriela Cuevas
is a senator with the National Action Party (PAN)
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