Mexicans urged to fight deports in court. Mex gov't allocates funds for defense

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Influential Mexicans are pushing an aggressive and perhaps risky strategy to fight a likely increase in deportations of their undocumented compatriots in the U.S.: jam U.S. immigration courts in hopes of causing the already overburdened system to break down. The proposal calls for ad campaigns advising migrants in the U.S. to take their cases to court and fight deportation if detained. “The backlog in the immigration system is tremendous,” said former Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda. The idea is to double or triple the backlog, “until [U.S. President Donald] Trump desists in this stupid idea,” he added.

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Mr. Castañeda is part of a group of Mexican officials, legislators, governors and public figures planning to meet with migrant groups Saturday in Phoenix to lay out plans to confront the Trump administration’s deportation policy. Mexico’s government hasn’t endorsed the strategy or the group’s Phoenix mission. But it recently allocated some $50 million to assist undocumented migrants facing deportation, and President Enrique Peña Nieto has instructed the country’s 50 consulates in the U.S. to defend migrants.

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The issue of stepped-up deportations is moving to the forefront in bilateral relations that have fractured since Donald Trump’s inauguration. Mr. Trump’s plans to deport undocumented Mexicans, renegotiate the countries’ free-trade deal, and build a border wall at Mexico’s expense have sparked a nationalist backlash south of the border.

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Along with confronting the Trump administration by overwhelming tribunals, Monarca is also exploring making the U.S. responsible for providing documentation that deportees are Mexicans, Mr. Castañeda says, rather than Mexico accepting them without that documentation.

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We want to be friends, but in the face of continued hostility we don’t have to keep a friendly attitude forever,” said Arturo Zamora, a senator with Mr. Peña Nieto’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. The new U.S. administration’s plans have put Mr. Peña Nieto in an uncomfortable position of defending Mexico’s interest while keeping communications channels open with his mercurial American counterpart.

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I know I quoted a lot of text from that article, but I felt all of it pertinent to the discussion. There are almost too many things to discuss.

The fact that a foreign government will allocate funds to assist their citizens in breaking our laws is very disturbing and certainly opens the gate for Trump to directly retaliate against them with taxing remissions/cutting off aid, etc.

Another thing I find very disturbing is that we're going to actually allow a foreign agent to enter our country and whip the natives into a lather over them breaking our laws. Cancel this bastards visa with haste.

And still, the fact that they're going to force the US to prove these people are from Mexico? Bitch please. We're putting your arse on a bus, decide where you want to go but it ain't here. Comprende? Adios mf!