For Artemio Arreola, the recognition of the president is insufficient because in none of his three visits to the United States, López Obrador has had a meeting with the community and considers that there is no reciprocity because of the billions of pesos that they send each month are not allocated sufficient resources to receive quality care at the Mexican consulates.
“Our issue is not a priority (for the government). We have asked for the meetings with the president from day one, it is insulting that on the one hand he tells us nice, but on the other hand when he has come to the United States he does not want to meet with us ”, he laments.
On his second visit to the United States, the country where he went to participate in the UN Security Council, the president addressed a message to fellow nationals, in which he recognized their effort and contribution to Mexico, however, he indicated that he did not there were conditions for a meeting.
“It goes to 10 million families, like 7,000 pesos a month, that’s what you help 10 million families in Mexico, from the towns, with that money the economy is reactivated, it helps commerce, there is life in the towns, It is the main source of financing that our country has, the remittances that you send to your relatives, ”said the president.
In that same message, the president promised that he would return to the United States to talk with his counterpart Joe Biden so that it complies with “the commitment” to regularize the legal situation of 11 million Mexican migrants, who are the first minority in that country.
The president of the National Front of Immigrants, Carlos Arango, points out that there has been no benefit for the migrants and regrets that in the speech the Mexican president recognizes them and in fact has left them alone.
“He calls us living heroes and what good is it if he has more than abandoned us.”
Carlos Arango, the president of the National Immigrant Front.
Some of the Mexican migrant leaders in the United States share that not even during the pandemic have they felt the closeness of the Mexican government.
“Our Latino and Mexican migrant community has been very hit by the pandemic, here we have received support and that is why we have been able to send money to Mexico, because in the US they have allocated resources. We have stood up, but we have not been treated equally or reciprocally ”, says Artemio Arreola.
And precisely the COVID pandemic, the economic crisis and the violence in the country have made more Mexicans consider venturing to cross to the United States in search of a better life.
Data from the Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) of that country show that from just January to November 2021, of the 1 million 855,023 arrests made on the southern border, 654,418 were of Mexicans, that is, 35% .
