May 28, 2011

Mexico migrants: Mexico law aims to reduce risks to migrants passing through

A look at the dynamics, economics and politics of undocumented migration through Mexico to the U.S.

Mexico migrants: Mexico law aims to reduce risks to migrants passing through - latimes.com: "President Felipe Calderon, his administration chastised by foreign governments for how their citizens are treated, this week signed a new immigration law aimed at reducing the risks. The measure decriminalizes the act of entering the country without papers and entitles the undocumented to education and health services. It also promises a major overhaul of the scandal-plagued federal immigration agency....

Calderon, in signing the new law, said he hoped that bringing immigrants out of the shadows of clandestine living would make them less likely to fall victim to the "evil and perverse" trafficking gangs — especially since migration from Mexico to the U.S. is an economic phenomenon that is not going away.


"As long as the United States does not have a legal framework that permits this natural flow and channels it in an orderly way," Calderon added, "migrants will continue to run the risk of becoming part of a market run by unscrupulous criminals. That is the reality.""

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