I think it is not so much about deportations, and more about a new law in Texas that appears to target Hispanic people. And there are millions of Hispanics in Texas that are legal residents and citizens who could very well be subject to harassment under this new law by local law enforcement who do NOT necessarily have access to Federal immigration data to know whether someone they find on the street is a legal resident or citizen or not. We KNOW that sort of thing happened, because that is exactly what happened in Arizona when Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio did the same thing and started targeting immigrants in Phoenix a decade ago. Random Hispanic folks (legal residents and citizens) were getting snatched off the street by Maricopa County sheriffs and subject to days or more of detention until their identities could finally be sorted out. Most people don't walk around with their passports proving citizenship. Hispanic drivers were also being racially profiled by local sheriffs and all sorts of other things. The county ended up getting sued for racial discrimination and had to pay a huge settlement.Ernie wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:22 pm https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68613083
Does the Mexican president truly consider deporting people from Texas to Mexico as dehumanizing? I can see ways that it is dehumanizing, (depending on a person's reason for crossing the border at places other than ports of entry) but I'm wondering if the Mexican president believes this in his heart of hearts.
In exchange for deportations, Mexico might very justifiably ask Texas what Texas is doing in exchange to stop the flow of illegal weapons from Texas to Mexico. Which is an ENORMOUS problem in Mexico and how the cartels get most of their weapons. How is Texas going to answer that? Texas has been hell-bent on relaxing and eliminating firearms laws for the past decade. These sorts of things are quid-pro-quo.
Setting aside the rhetoric. Mexico actually has a very good point and they are well within their rights to refuse to interact with the state of Texas on deportations. Mexico has no immigration treaty with the State of Texas that deals with the myriad of issues that a nation-to-nation border treaty would involve from deportations to extraditions to everything else. They do so with the US and they are well within their rights to simply say that they are only going to deal with the United States Customs and Border Protection and other Federal agencies and not the Texas State Troopers or whomever when it comes to deportations.
Honestly I think Texas is the dog that caught the car on this one. What are they going to do with a whole bunch of detainees? Burn up tens of millions of local tax dollars housing these people in local county jails where they have to be housed, fed, given medical care, etc? They will just keep piling up.
Mexico isn't going to take them off Texas' hands. In fact, the majority aren't Mexicans anyway. And the US immigration service doesn't have detention space to house them all. So they will just go back into the system that is already broken and underfunded and get released back into Texas if they are asylum seekers. Because Republicans are refusing to increase funding for immigration courts and streamlining of the process. The obvious solution is to fix things at the Federal level which Republicans in Congress don't want to do.