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Mexico Warns Citizens to ‘Take Precautions’ after Deportations Begin

Mexico Warns Citizens to ‘Take Precautions’ after Deportations Begin
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The Mexican government is urging its citizens living in the US to "keep in touch with its nearest consulate" and to make an emergency contingency plans the day after a mother was deported, following President Donald Trump's executive order.

Mexico Warns Citizens to ‘Take Precautions’ after Deportations Begin

In a statement released Friday, the Mexican Foreign Ministry said that the country's consulates in the US have "intensified their work" to protect fellow nationals, and are anticipating "more severe immigration measures to be implemented by the authorities of this country, and possible violations to constitutional precepts during such operations and problems with due process," according to a CNN translation.

The statement was released the day after Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos became one of the first people to be deported under Trump's executive order on immigration.

Garcia de Rayos, a 36-year-old mother of two US citizens, had lived in the US for the past 20 years. She was detained after going in for a routine check at the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] office in Phoenix.

Trump promised to crack down on any illegal immigrants with criminal records, and Garcia de Rayos was a convicted felon.

In 2009, Garcia de Rayos pleaded guilty to using a fake Social Security number, but was allowed to stay in the country under an Obama administration policy that gave leniency to undocumented migrants who had entered the US as children.

ICE confirmed Garcia de Rayos' deportation to Mexico, noting that her felony conviction was reviewed by "multiple levels of the immigration court system" before it was determined that she did not have "a legal basis to remain in the US."

Protesters gathered outside the immigration office in the hopes of preventing Garcia de Rayos' deportation, with one demonstrator going as far as chaining himself to the transport van.

The Mexican Consulate General in Nogales, Arizona, was also present for the deportation to ensure it was conducted in a "dignified and safe" manner, according to the statement from Mexico.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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