Mexican government adviser says that the country must be convinced of the reality of transmigration
Participants at the II International Forum on Migration and Peace, - held in Bogotá, Colombia, observed a minute of silence for the victims of the slaughter of 72 immigrants in San Fernando, Mexico.
Rafael Fernandez de Castro, Advisor for International Affairs of the Presidency of Mexico said, in his speech at the Forum, that Mexico will take action against violence.
"Mexico is a country of trans-migrants. During the last decade, 170 thousand migrants a year crossed the country. In Mexico we recently had, one of the world's saddest -incidences that shook the entire Mexican political class. Mexico cannot demand better treatment for its immigrants in the United States if it does not take care of its trans-migrants in the same way," he said.
Fernandez de Castro does not believe that - structural conditions for a comprehensive reform of immigration laws in the United States exists, where there are more than 11 million undocumented immigrants. He alerted to the dangerous reality of human trafficking in Central America, where migrants are subjected, beside their arduous journey, to abduction and forced recruitment by organized crime.
He noted that the Mexican government is promoting a new national law on population to replace the current law--restrictive, discriminatory and inflexible on the entry of migrants--which led to the expulsion of half a million foreigners, compared with only five thousand regularized migrants yearly.
To prevent these massacres, Mexico, he said, will come together immediately to combat the abduction of migrants and to use all Mexican resources to fight crime, using an intelligence operative plan.
The Second International Forum on Migration and Peace is promoted by the SIMN (Scalabrinian International Migration Network) and it has been co-organized with the Missionaries of St. Charles and the Municipality of Bogotá, in collaboration with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Scalabrini Communications Center.
Participants at the II International Forum on Migration and Peace, - held in Bogotá, Colombia, observed a minute of silence for the victims of the slaughter of 72 immigrants in San Fernando, Mexico.
Rafael Fernandez de Castro, Advisor for International Affairs of the Presidency of Mexico said, in his speech at the Forum, that Mexico will take action against violence.
"Mexico is a country of trans-migrants. During the last decade, 170 thousand migrants a year crossed the country. In Mexico we recently had, one of the world's saddest -incidences that shook the entire Mexican political class. Mexico cannot demand better treatment for its immigrants in the United States if it does not take care of its trans-migrants in the same way," he said.
Fernandez de Castro does not believe that - structural conditions for a comprehensive reform of immigration laws in the United States exists, where there are more than 11 million undocumented immigrants. He alerted to the dangerous reality of human trafficking in Central America, where migrants are subjected, beside their arduous journey, to abduction and forced recruitment by organized crime.
He noted that the Mexican government is promoting a new national law on population to replace the current law--restrictive, discriminatory and inflexible on the entry of migrants--which led to the expulsion of half a million foreigners, compared with only five thousand regularized migrants yearly.
To prevent these massacres, Mexico, he said, will come together immediately to combat the abduction of migrants and to use all Mexican resources to fight crime, using an intelligence operative plan.
The Second International Forum on Migration and Peace is promoted by the SIMN (Scalabrinian International Migration Network) and it has been co-organized with the Missionaries of St. Charles and the Municipality of Bogotá, in collaboration with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Scalabrini Communications Center.
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