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               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
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