After the mayor of Piedras Negras, Norma Treviño, stated in recent days that a camp for migrants will be set up, where the challenge will be to maintain the safety of Nigropetenses, the Casa del Migrante, regretted that hate speech towards this population, which has been fleeing poverty, as well as crime.
“It is worrying when he talks about the security of the people of Piedras Negras and assumes that insecurity is brought by migrants, which seems to me the criminalization of poverty, as well as migration.”, highlighted the director, Alberto Xicoténcatl.
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He indicated that the foregoing represents a speech of hate and phobia towards thesewhich is very worrying especially if it is issued by a mayor.
Secondly, He stressed that the challenge of the municipalities is not to contain migratory flows.
“The Municipality and the State cannot manage migratory flows, although they do have the obligation to attend to the population with special needs, such as refugee migrants, where the constitution obliges them“, said.
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In relation to the coordinated strategy that the Municipalities maintain with the different orders of government for the containment of migrants, Alberto Xicoténcatl, He stressed that this is not his competition.
However, he highlighted that the camp project is expected to materializeas long as it operates properly and has decent spaces for this sector.
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