Washington. The hands of the clock go back to the days of President Donald Trump when he used migration as a rifle in the middle of a hybrid war.
It will be next Monday when the government of President Joe Biden, through an express order from the Supreme Court, reinstates the Stay in Mexico program, which consists of bringing undocumented migrants to Mexico seeking asylum in the United States.
Through a statement from the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the United States Government makes explicit the position taken by President López Obrador to “accept the returned persons” through a “decision Independent”.
The decision made by the US Supreme Court is radically extraterritorial, and Mexico could have rejected it. What response would the Supreme Court have given in the hypothetical and now impossible scenario if the President of Mexico had so decided? President Biden’s administration had two options: return Central American migrants to their places of origin or take them to Canada under a program that could well be called: “Stay in Canada.”
The Supreme Court presented an ethnocentric vision where there is no world beyond the United States, that is, as if there were no country called Mexico on the southern border. Why did President López Obrador accept the interventionist decision of the United States Supreme Court?
There are no free breakfasts. Under a quid pro quo negotiation scenario, President López Obrador would appreciate the 13 million doses of vaccines against Covid-19 that the White House has donated to Mexico; The United States is committed to providing economic resources to subsidize the maintenance of Central American migrants in Mexican territory; The National Palace would ask the White House to avoid interference in its critical path of Q4; Biden asked him to grant visas to DEA agents to operate in Mexico.
Logistics
There will be seven exit points for migrants: San Diego, Calexico, Nogales, El Paso, Eagle Pass, Laredo and Brownsville.
The statement makes explicit the failure of the program: “It does not address the root causes of irregular migration.” He also exonerates the Secretary of Security, Alejando Mayorkas, of the idea of the program: “he has declared that the program has endemic flaws and imposed unjustifiable human costs.”
The United States limits the time to resolve each of the migrant’s requests to six months and undertakes to vaccinate all migrants who are taken to Mexico.
Regresa Trump, pero sin Trump.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx