:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/YFLSGPE2FJ4UKIFQT7T3LTFDU4.jpg "Operation Easter 2023 has begun to receive compatriots in the state of Oaxaca")
On March 14, the Commissioner of the National Institute for Migration (IN M) of the Ministry of the Interior Francisco Garduno Yanezwith the Governor of oaxacaSalomón Jara Cruz, launched the Operation Easter 2023 of the Country Heroes program.
This is a program that provides assistance, advice and aims to ensure a safe journey for compatriots who visit the country during the season.
Once the starting signal has been given, Commissioner Francisco Garduño Yáñez indicated that Federal Migration Agents (AFM) and at least 40 agencies from the three levels of government will receive the immigrants that they arrive at their destination to be reunited with their families.
“The National Institute for Migration will fulfill its mission of welcoming compatriot heroes. Oaxaca is organizing to receive them because our foundations are here because it is a land with a history, with a memory because our roots and our culture have prevailed,” the state governor said.
It is from March 15 to April 15 that INM personnel will deploy its elements in the main points of affluence such as bus stations, ports, airportsroads and border crossings to provide advice.
With the support of Mexican consulates in the United States and Canada, 114,000 copies of the Country Heroes Guide will be distributed and 386,000 throughout the country. The INM indicated that the 9-1-1 emergency and assistance line and other channels such as the institute’s social networks will be available to be in contact and answer questions from compatriots.
Likewise, 221 attention modules have been installed in the 32 entities of the country, where 479 Héroes Paisanos observers who have voluntarily joined the program will participate.
It should be mentioned that, during the Easter week operation applied in 2022, the Institute attended a total of 495 thousand 383 Mexicans who live in the United States and Canada and who take advantage of the holiday period to travel to Mexico and meet their loved ones.
On the other hand, official Francisco Garduño Yáñez affirmed that migrant families with children will not be allowed to cross the northern border with the United States. Since there is a protocol to rescue them and transfer them to shelters for their care and protection.
“They cannot put children, for example at the passage of the Rio Grande, exposed to drowning. I have given instructions that, if necessary, children should be removed from their parents so that we can protect the best interests of the children. AND We will not allow their integrity and their lives to be endangered.So be the parents. The State must protect this right and must be very vigilant”
Therefore, the staff of the National Institute for Migration is authorized to carry out the removal of migrant mothers and fathers from their children if they attempt to cross the border with them into the neighboring country.
One of the most remembered cases is the one that occurred in February when a migrant woman and her son were stranded in the waters of the Bravo River.
National Institute of Migration (INM) Group Beta personnel, aboard an airboat, managed to rescue and provide first aid to the two and searched for the minor’s father who, according to the mother, was not couldn’t get out of the current.
Precisely on the border of Coahuila and Texas, the exact moment Marisol called for help was captured to save her son and her husband. The family was submerged in the freezing waters From the body of water, the woman was carrying a backpack, and the father was carrying the little boy on his shoulders, but suddenly he went to the bottom. The mother struggled to get out of the river and managed to give first aid to her calf.