Mexico Develops App to Aid Its Citizens in US Facing Deportation

Mexico’s secretary of foreign affairs described the app as a ‘panic button’.

Illegal immigrants wait in along the border wall to board a bus after surrendering to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol agents on the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas on May 12, 2023. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Mexico is developing a new cellphone app for its citizens who are in the United States illegally so they can notify their family members and the nearest Mexican consulate if they are facing deportation, according to a Mexican official on Friday.

The move comes in response to potential mass deportations of illegal immigrants in the United States under the incoming Trump administration.