San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas - The Secretary of Government Relations, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, announced the launch of a comprehensive project to address the problems of Mexico's southern border, but said that "neither in the mind of the President nor any governing official" was there the idea of building a wall.
He said the federal government will install a commission to analyze public policies that will be launched with the aim of controlling the entry of migrants,
"to know who they are and to avoid their suffering or having any problem within our territory and preventing actions by organized crime."During a press conference in Tapachula, a city bordering Guatemala, following a meeting with security cabinet members and governors of the south-southeast region of the country, the federal official said it was agreed that the Secretary of the Navy, Admiral Vidal Francisco Soberon Sanz, will "lead this project of attention to the southern border."
Osorio Chong said that
"the southern border is also part of national security and if we don't attend to it, we won't know how many Central and South Americans and people from other continents enter our country. We won't know their fate or what happens to them," so "we can't ensure their human rights, as is the instruction of Enrique Peña Nieto.
"What we are thinking about are the public policies of attention, identification and control that allow us to know what is happening on the southern border, to have certainty that what is happening and passage may be in a coordinated manner," he said.Along with Osorio Chong, other federal officials involved in the meeting included the head of the Navy, Soberon Sanz, of National Defense, Salvador Cienfuegos, and Public Security, Manuel Mondragon, as well as the Attorney General of the Republic, Jesús Murillo Karam. Also attending were the governors of Chiapas, Manuel Velasco Coello; of Tabasco, Arturo Nunez; of Campeche, Fernando Ortega; of Quintana Roo, Roberto Borge, and of Veracruz, Javier Duarte, among other officials.
Osorio Chong said that after the meeting, the security cabinet
"has taught us not only the diagnosis of what we are presented with at the southern border, but also the actions to follow (...) It is a comprehensive project to address the immediate, medium and long term" for development of the southeast region of the country.
"This meeting not only dealt with this strip that divides the countries of Central and North America, but also to see how to solve the other problems that occur with migration that is out of control or not identified, that is, the lack of opportunities, where development is required," he said.Spanish original