Emir Olivares Alonso
La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, December 26, 2024, p. 11
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) analyzes with the University of Arizona legal options to defend Mexican migrants living in that country.
The director of the Matías Romero Institute (IMR), ambassador Juan José Bremer, highlighted that this collaboration has been going on for some time, but must be reinforced in the face of the challenges that the new government of that country, headed by Republican Donald Trump, will impose.
He stressed the importance of the Mexican foreign service preparing diplomats with knowledge of the legal instruments that can be used in favor of fellow citizens, with a sense of solidarity and responsibility towards Mexico.
I do not believe that there is a country that has a greater responsibility in defending the human rights and social protection of its fellow citizens abroad, specifically in the United States.
said Ambassador Bremer in an interview.
One of the goals of Juan Ramón de la Fuente’s management in the Foreign Ministry is to analyze the anti-immigrant laws of the United States to have legal defense tools.
The director of the Matías Romero Institute (an academic space that recently turned 50 years old and has trained 30 generations of Mexican diplomats) highlighted that the purpose of the agreement with the University of Arizona is that the staff of the Mexican consulates in the United States receive special courses on personal, family and labor law in the United States. That knowledge is key. I think we have already trained 300 officials or members of the foreign service. We are going to expand and deepen that
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He added that the SRE recently signed a collaboration agreement with the National Autonomous University of Mexico, which will support research projects on immigration matters.
Texas and California, priority states
Data from the Foreign Ministry itself indicate that 37.7 million Mexican migrants live in the United States; 36 percent are in California and 22 percent in Texas; Of that total, 26.7 million are second and third generations and 10.6 million were born in Mexico; Of the latter, 5.3 million are undocumented.
In 2023, they generated 324 billion dollars (265 billion were reinvested in the US economy and 63.3 billion were sent as remittances to Mexico).
