By Ciro Pérez Silva
June 27, 2013
Americas Program Original Translation
It lacks a
focus on regional integration and freedom of transit, while exploiting
undocumented migrants hope.
Mexico, DF.
Immigration reform without a regional integration approach and freedom of
movement is a setback for citizens throughout Central America and the
Caribbean, warned a diverse group of migrant family members from
Oaxaca, Guerrero and New York, among others.
"While
the rest of the world is finding mechanisms to ensure human mobility in a
framework of rights, the governments of Mexico and the United States are
engaged in agreements that criminalize and only promote discrimination and fear
of the other, represented in the migrant ".
In a
statement, the families of migrants in Mexico expressed support for legalization
and for the rights of more than 6 million undocumented Mexicans living in the
United States.
However,
they find it "outrageous that migrant hopes are used to justify the implementation
of border war tactics, like the 125 kilometer border wall, aerial surveillance
and 40 000 police force intended to be placed along it."
The Popular
Assembly of Migrant Families (APOFAM) and local assemblies of Mexico City, Guerrero,
Oaxaca, Tlaxcala and New York, demanded the Mexican government become
responsive to the more than 30 million Mexicans in the United States and more
than 30 million families living in Mexico, and to reject this and all
legislation that threaten the rights of migrants along and within the country's
borders.
"Although
as a family we have given our life, our work and our knowledge to the economic
development of Mexico at the expense of family separation, our communities
continue to be discriminated, marginalized and harassed by corrupt and
ineffective public administrators and organized crime. We demand the expansion of rights such as
human mobility and family reunification, without implying the sacrifice of
freedoms already established in the region" they said.
Translated by Nidia Bautista
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