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A12 WORLD NEWS
Thursday 23 February 2017

Mexicans weigh the daunting prospect of deportee camps

MARK STEVENSON them.” Mexico can simply refuse
Associated Press It’s unclear whether the to accept non-Mexican
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexi- United States has the au- deportees. “They come
cans fear deportee and thority to force Mexico to through one by one, and
refugee camps could be accept third-country na- when the Mexican immi-
popping up along their tionals. The DHS memo calls gration agent sees a per-
northern border under the for the department to pro- son who isn’t Mexican, he
Trump administration’s vide an account of U.S. aid tells the ICE agent, ‘I can’t
plan to start deporting to to Mexico, a possible signal accept this person, he’s not
Mexico all Latin Americans that Trump plans to use Mexican,’ and they return
and others who entered that funding to get Mexico him to the United States.”
the U.S. illegally through to accept the foreigners. Hope said the new U.S.
this country. Murphy said, “I hope Mexi- policy could create an “ex-
Previous U.S. policy called co has the courage to say plosive situation,” noting
for only Mexican citizens no to this.” that some anti-foreigner
to be sent to Mexico. Mi- Josue Fernando Garcia, who lived 20 years in the U.S. before Mexico’s foreign relations sentiment already exists in
grants known as “OTMs” being deported, walks to his call center job as he leaves the secretary, Luis Videgaray, Mexico’s northern border
— Other Than Mexicans Casa de los Amigos migrant shelter which helps deportees start said Wednesday that his region and that Central
— got flown back to their building a life in Mexico City. Mexicans fear deportee and refu- country has “no reason to American migrants have
homelands. gee camps could be popping up along their northern border accept unilateral decisions been recruited, sometimes
under the Trump administration’s plan to start deporting to Mex-
Now, under a sweeping re- ico all Latin Americans and others who entered the U.S. illegally imposed by one govern- by force, into drug gangs
write of enforcement poli- through this country. ment on another.” like the Zetas and the Gulf
cies announced Tuesday (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) “We are not going to ac- cartel.
by the U.S. Department cept that because we The United States could
of Homeland Security, mi- runs the Casa del Migrante ing. don’t have to and it is not pay to build the needed
grants might be dumped shelter in the border city Mexicans quake at the in the interest of Mexico,” facilities. There would be
over the border into a of Tijuana, which currently thought of handling not Videgaray said. precedents for such a deal.
violence-plagued land houses about 55 Haitian thousands, but hundreds In apparent reference to Turkey has agreed to house
where they have no ties immigrants. They were part of thousands of foreigners broadened definitions of Syrian refugees headed for
while their asylum claims or of wave of thousands who in a border region already those subject to deporta- the European Union in ex-
deportation proceedings swarmed to the border in struggling with drug gangs tion, he said “Let there be change for at least $3 bil-
are heard in the United the closing months of the and violence. no doubt, Mexico and the lion in aid.
States. U.S. officials didn’t Obama administration in “Just look at the case of the Mexican government will “For this to be politically
say what Mexico would be hopes of getting asylum in Haitians in Tijuana, what not hesitate in going to in- acceptable in Mexico, it
expected to do with them. the U.S. were they, seven or eight ternational organizations, would have to be paid,”
The only consensus so far Tijuana was overwhelmed, thousand? And the situa- starting with the United said Hope. “No Mexican
in Mexico about the new and while the government tion was just out of control,” Nations, to defend human administration could ac-
policies of President Don- did little, a string of private said Alejandro Hope, a rights, liberties and due pro- cept this kind of thing un-
ald Trump is that the coun- Christian groups pitched in Mexico City-based security cess for Mexicans abroad less it were accompanied
try isn’t remotely prepared. to open shelters with impro- analyst. “Now imagine a according to international by billions of dollars.”
“Not in any way, shape or vised bedding, tents and situation 10 or 15 times that law.” Victor Clark, director Mexico’s government
form,” said the Rev. Pat- sanitary facilities. Donated size. There aren’t enough of Tijuana’s Binational Cen- didn’t formally react to the
rick Murphy, a priest who food kept the Haitians go- resources to maintain ter for Human Rights, said DHS policy statements.q

Brazil’s Senate confirms Temer ally as new top court judge

MAURICIO SAVARESE Alexandre de Moraes was have implicated Temer, books. Backers noted that empt himself would lead
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — approved by a 55-13 vote. though he has not been he is one of the scholars many Brazilians to think
Brazil’s Senate confirmed He will replace Justice Teori charged, raising concerns most cited in supreme court Moraes had been chosen
the country’s outgoing Zavascki, who died in a about the independence decisions. He rejected calls specifically to intervene in
justice minister to a place plane crash near Rio de Ja- of any nomination he might from opposition lawmakers such cases.
on the Supreme Court on neiro in January. make to the supreme court. to remove himself from any Critics have accused
Wednesday, pushing aside Zavascki had been over- Moraes, 48, is a well-con- political corruption cases. Moraes of plagiarizing
concerns over his ties to seeing cases involving nected longtime member With the political climate some legal texts, covering
embattled President Mi- leading politicians during of the center-right Brazilian in turmoil because dozens up his wife’s businesses and
chel Temer at a moment a sprawling probe into cor- Social Democracy Party of politicians have been of links to a transportation
when the court is oversee- ruption centered on the who has served in a series implicated, Sen. Lindberg cooperative alleged to
ing corruption probes into state oil company, Petro- of government posts as Farias of the Workers’ Party have crime links. He denied
top politicians. bras. Some of those cases well as authoring legal text- warned that refusal to ex- all the allegations.q