Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters yesterday that her country had received 14,470 deportees from the US since President Trump resumed office. Of those, 11,379 were Mexicans and 3,091 non-Mexican, primarily Central Americans.
Some of those deported were flown back from the US, but about 500 per day are simply being returned across the border. Others are being flown to to centers in Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Panama, from which they are free to return to their home countries, such as China and India, and countries blocking deportee flights from the United States.
Surprisingly, some national leaders are coming around to the idea that they need to hang onto their citizens if they are to make progress economically. For example, Colombian President Gustavo Patriot said in a January 31 statement: “I ask undocumented Colombians in the U.S. to immediately leave their jobs in that country and return to Colombia as soon as possible. . . “[W]ealth is produced only by working people.”
Similarly, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness said in a recent speech: “What we are trying to build here is a place where every Jamaican can feel proud and comfortable to come back home. . . That’s what we want to build here — your homeland. And, if you’re finding it difficult where you are, come back here.”
While these are good signs, the sheer numbers of illegal migrants admitted by the Biden administration (at least nine million), combined with the many millions already here, will take years to remove. But there is no time like the present to begin.
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