The crisis caused by the implementation of measures to expel migrants and avoid its entry to the United States, It has led to a series of internal and external tensions for that country.
The governments of the region have chosen to sign bilateral agreements with the US government, which generate adverse effects for those people, who They have remained in a legal limbo or in conditions of greater vulnerability.
According to the director of the program for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Institute of Migration Policy (MPI), Diego Chaves – González, until last Monday, President Donald Trump had signed 175 executive orders, Many of which have generated serious effects on migrants.
The recent ones They add to those issued last Monday, to expand the detention and deportation operation of undocumented, launched on January 20. In addition, Trump asked the Department of Justice for a list with the name of the states, counties and cities that have avoided joining federal immigration operations.
Chaves – González said the delicate thing is that this is generating relevant legal challenges. Specifically, sE have produced tensions between the executive and judicial powers to specific cases, for example, that of the Salvadoran that “by mistake” was sent to a prison in El Salvador and the Judiciary has said that it has to be returned to US territory.
Until last April 27, The United States government faced 50 collective demands, against their immigration policiesof which, at least three, were in the Supreme Court.
In that sense, the specialist stressed that, in previous decisions, the Supreme Court has indicated that, although the government has the power to implement this type of measures, He has asked for respect for due process and to be done with judicial orders in between.
At the end of 2024 there were about 1.5 million unauthorized migrants in the United States With final deportation orders, of which more than two thirds came from countries such as Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
Many of them despite being subject to control measures, explored forms of protection to avoid deportation, but The situation has caused the capabilities of countries to receive returnees overpass.
The specialist commented that in Guatemala and Mexico have begun to publish support plans for the returnees, But when logistic and economic capacities are analyzed to implement them, it is evident that they are very limited.
