The Government of López Obrador presented the special commission that will be focused on reducing illegal migration to Mexico, whose work includes the deployment of the National Guard.

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The purpose of this task is to coordinate the efforts of the federal strategy in order to reduce migration, or else Central Americans will stay and work in Chiapas. It will be coordinated by the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard, and will include the National Guard, the National Migration Institute, the Ministry of Welfare and the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare.

The Mexican Foreign Minister explained that the commission will be comprised of; General Vicente Antonio Hernández, Commander of the 36th Military Zone in Tapachula, Chiapas, who will be in charge of integrating the coordinations that the National Guard will deploy on the southern border, Francisco Garduño, Commissioner of the Decentralized Administrative Body for Prevention and Social Reinsertion, who will be in charge of coordinating the different areas of migration, both municipal and state, Javier May Rodríguez, Undersecretary of Welfare, focusing on the development and welfare in the south of the country, as well as the care received by migrants.

Also present will be Horacio Duarte, Undersecretary of Employment, organizing the Immediate Plan for Attention to Migrants awaiting asylum in the north of the country, and finally, the Undersecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean, Maximiliano Reyes Zúñiga, who will be in charge of coordinating the plan with the Central American countries, so that they show solidarity and attend to their responsibilities to avoid more migrations.

The President of Mexico commented that the objective is to treat migrants with humanism and if necessary, they will expand some programs, such as Sembrando Vida, which will plant 200,000 additional hectares on the southern border, where at the same time they would be generating close to 80,000 jobs.

He also stated that the resources to face this contingency will come from his government's savings from the fight against corruption.

Prepared by CAINTRA, with information from El Economista, El Financiero, Conferencia Matutina, Proceso, CNN.