Summary
Mexico is testing a cellphone app that allows migrants to alert relatives and Mexican consulates if they believe they are about to be detained by U.S. immigration authorities.
The “panic button” app, announced by Foreign Affairs Secretary Juan Ramón de la Fuente, aims to address fears of mass deportations under Donald Trump.
Alerts notify chosen contacts and the nearest consulate, while Mexico has increased consular staff and legal aid for deportation cases.
Full app rollout is expected in January, alongside a 24/7 migrant support call center.
Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship is to conflate undocumented immigration with invasion. True foreign invaders are not “subject to the laws of the United States”, which is the criteria the 14th amendment requires to secure birthright citizenship.
Under this theory, Trump can trace back the lineage of every “US Citizen of Mexican ancestry” and, upon finding an unnaturalized ancester, void the citizenship of every subsequent generation.
Further, by declaring them invaders, Trump can employ the military against them. Anyone who supports “invaders” gives “aid and comfort to the enemy”, making them guilty of treason. Trump now has a wedge to drive reasonable people away from opposing his anti-immigration tactics.
Our main hopes for preventing this travesty ultimately lie with the nine members of the Supreme Court, of whom Trump previously appointed three. Since “[he got] to pick [his] judges, nothing you can do, folks.”
This isn’t just limited to people of Mexican ancestry. If you (or anyone else) can fill in the following blank, you can be targeted under the same process: “My family has _______ heritage.”
That sounds like a lot of work that I’m sure they’ll pretend to be getting around to eventually
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Assuming no blackmail.
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