Mexico City, Mexico — On International Migrants Day, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo reminded everyone that Mexico is synonymous with migrants, whom she recognized as heroes and heroines of the nation.
She reiterated that the Mexican government’s position is to protect its citizens abroad and to foster cooperation for development among nations to reduce this phenomenon by investing in countries with the greatest poverty and inequality.
“We will never agree with actions that criminalize migrants. Our position is that there must always be cooperation for development, from any country to another, and at the same time, the protection of migrants.
“And we must always offer an alternative. For migrants arriving in Mexico from other countries we seek to provide them with employment opportunities in Mexico, if they so wish, or to repatriate them, to return to their countries with the support of the government if they so desire, and this has worked.
“That will always be our position,” she said Thursday.
Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez, Mexico’s Secretary of the Interior, highlighted that through the “Mexico Embraces You” strategy, from January 20 to December 17, 145,537 repatriations have been carried out, of which 116,156 were by land and 29,381 by air.
She detailed that there are currently nine care centers with a combined capacity of 1,800 people to receive repatriated people from Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Chiapas and Tabasco.
She added that of the repatriated individuals, 99,924 were assisted through this strategy, 70,543 at service centers and 29,381 at the PRIM modules in airports, providing 846,000 services.
These services included food distribution, transportation to their communities of origin, IMSS (Mexican Social Security Institute) enrollment, distribution of Finabien Paisan cards, issuance of CURP (Unique Population Registry Code) and birth certificates, lodging, phone calls, enrollment in Welfare Programs, medical and psychological care.
It also included services from agencies such as Ministry of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development, the Ministry of Agriculture, the National System for Integral Family Development and the Ministry of Women, job placement assistance, distribution of Federal Electricity Commission SIM cards, and assistance with educational procedures.
Furthermore, a 24/7 Command Center was established on January 20th.
The commissioner of the National Migration Institute (INM), Salomón Céspedes Peregrina, detailed that the Winter 2025 “Heroines and Heroes of the Countrymen” program will be implemented from November 28, 2025, to January 8, 2026.
To date, 463,879 cases have been handled and complaints resolved. He added that on Wednesday, December 17, the INM attended the meeting, reception and support of the Organized Caravan of Countrymen, in which 20,000 Mexicans entered through Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas in 5,231 vehicles.
On Thursday, authorities said that this week, the collaboration between the Mexican Consulate in Chicago and partner organizations in the Midwestern United States was finalized, enabling hundreds of Mexican nationals to be released on bail from immigration detention centers.
Those eligible for release will include those detained without a warrant and without a criminal record in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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