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Deportation Panic Button: Mexico Creates Controversial App


With Jan 20th getting nearer, those that are in this country illegally are getting worried.

But Mexico is coming to the rescue.

They’re preparing for President Donald Trump’s return to office with plans for mass deportations.

What will they do?

They’re going to launch the Alert Button app in January.

This app lets illegal immigrants notify family and consulates if they’re about to be detained in the U.S.

Developed with the Mexican Digital Transformation Agency, it aims to assist immigrants as enforcement ramps up.

What happened with the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, saying she was getting on board with President Trump about deportation?

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Does she want those tariffs after all?

ABC News reports:

Mexico is developing a cellphone app that will allow migrants to inform family members and local consulates if they think they are about to be detained in the United States, the country’s secretary of foreign affairs announced on Friday.

The app is expected to become available in January as President-elect Donald Trump, who has pledged to launch mass deportations of migrants living in the U.S. without legal permission on Day 1 of his second term, takes office.

The app — dubbed Alert Button — will allow nationals who think they are about to be detained to notify the “consulate closest to their location about situations of imminent detention, notify family members who have previously been selected, as well as report to the Foreign Affairs Secretary,” Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press release.

The app was developed with the Mexican Digital Transformation Agency for “emergency cases,” Juan Ramón de la Fuente, Mexico’s secretary of foreign affairs, said.

Fox News adds:

“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,” Mexico’s secretary of foreign affairs Juan Ramón de la Fuente said.

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He said it has already been rolled out for small-scale testing and “appears to be working very well.”

De la Fuente described it as a sort of panic button, adding that his office has beefed up its consular staff by hiring “329 legal representatives” to ensure that Mexicans facing deportation will be given due process and are properly informed of their rights before potential removal.

Is this an act of war?

329 legal representatives are standing by now.



 

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