Posted on 09/12/2007 11:33:40 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
TITLE: "Mexican Consulates (in USA) Refuse to Grant Visas to Central American Undocumented Immigrants"
By Paula Diaz Diaro Hoy (213-237-4582) pdiaz@hoyllc.com
11 of September, 2007
(TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH FROM SPANISH FOR FREEPERS. From the Original "Consulados de México niegan visas a centroamericanos indocumentados")
Los Angeles -- The Consulates of Honduras and Guatemala have expressed their concern about the problems that face undocumented immigrants from Central America, in the United States, when they wish to try to transit back through Mexico to go back to lands of their origin and return home.
The Central American diplomats said that the Consulates of Mexico in the U.S. do not grant visas to Central Americans who do not have or display legal documentation for them to be in the United States, even if those people only wish to travel through Mexican territory so that they can go back to their homelands.
"We have had several cases of some Hondurans who, after living in the U.S.A., decided to return to Honduras wit their possessions, and they are experiencing this problem (with Mexico). Mexico will not grant them visas, complained Vivian Panting, Consul General of Honduras. "This is something that many people do not know and find out only when they have begun their journey homeward."
"We had the case of one person who appeared before the Consulate of Mexico to ask for a transit visa because she had made up her mind to return to her country, and the Mexican Consulate refused her because she did not have documents which made her legal in the United States", she added.
Panting indicated that this represents an additional cost for which already they are prepared to initiate their trip.
On the other hand, the Consul of Guatemala, Milton Alvarez, indicated that also he has had similar cases reported to his consulate in the U.S.: People who wish to return to Guatemala but the cannot make this trip to repatriate to Guatemala over land because Mexico denies them visas.
Responding to this, Mireya Magaña, a spokeswoman of the Consulate of Mexico in Los Angeles, indicated that it is a question of following the lawas of her country.
"Their are established legal requirements in place whereby a visa for Mexico to nationals of a third country are required a valid passport, plus the valid visa of the third country they are in (in this case, the United States), plus a statement of their fiscal situation," said Magaña. "If they have these three requirements, the processing is very fast and we can issue a visa for all citizens of Central American countries. In the case of El Salvador, it will be a stamp, not a visa proper".
Magaña confirmed that, in conformance with these Mexican legal requirements, the Central American undocumented people are not able to obtain a Mexican visa.
In the webpage of Internet of the Secretary of External Relations of Mexico (SRE) the requirements necessary are detailed to obtain a transit visa to move across Mexico. Among them are: to present/display a passport or identity card which states the nationality of the traveler, the official admission of his or herself to a third country and to verify not to have impediment some for its readmisión in the country where it tries to document itself or in the one of origin. Not to fulfill these requirements, implies that the visa is denied, states the Mexican Government website.
For a while, I have been saying that we should make the illegals, mostly Mexican, feel at home. We should apply the Mexican immigration law when dealing with them.
Nobody can scream bloody murder, racists, bigots, Latino haters, etc.
The illegals in question crossed our southern border with the agreement of the Mexican government. Either they go and cross it back (we won’t stop them) which is scary or we dump them over the border and have Mexico deal with them for entering Mexico illegally in the first place.
This is not our problem, it’s Mexico’s problem.
“Hypocrites! I mean, you cannot make this stuff up.”
Nope....PERFECT!
Because being in Mexico illegally is more serious than being here illegally.
They don't want the Central Americans settling in Mexico!
Why THANKS. Lets spread the word.
You have to bring up anger from within the depths of your spirit toward the MEXICAN GOVERNMENT, IMHO, in the first place, to challenge them and their hypocrisy. But I see what you mean, 3AD.
Bttt!
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