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| Fathe Alejandro Solalinde Photo: Jesús Quintanar |
Milenio: Eugenia Jiménez
The priest Alejandro Solalinde said documenting migrants entering through the southern border of Mexico through a biometric registration is
"a degrading and shameful act for our Central American brothers."He said that this decision proves that this country has become another operator of the United States security system through the National Institute of Migration, which is an indispensable piece of work for the U.S.
Milenio has announced that the resources of the Merida Initiative will be used to install the system that will identify the iris, fingerprints and photographs of all who cross the southern border. It is estimated that annually 300,000 Central Americans cross the southern border "irregularly".
Father Solalinde explained that, together with the statements of President Enrique Peña on increasing penalties for terrorism, this project responds to the need of the United States, not of Mexico, because
"we don't have terrorism, and what they want to avoid is that they arrive through our border."Mexico, said the priest who defends the rights of migrants, will be doing the work of documentation of Central Americans in the country with resources from the U.S., because "it's the one who pays."
He added that for now it is only to identify them, but
"later they will be asked to detain them and the prisons will be saturated, without adequate infrastructure."He said it is a "shame" to comply with what the U.S. has stipulated, while Mexicans fail to develop a migration policy and do not have the issue as a priority on the national agenda.
Solalinde said Peña Nieto
"is not the bad guy in the film, nor is the former president, Felipe Calderón, for not establishing a migration policy, because even if they wanted, they don't have enough moral strength to make it a national project involving the Central American nations."Spanish original