Posted on 11/16/2016 3:15:48 PM PST by jazusamo
The Mexican government announced Wednesday 11 actions to protect its citizens in the United States following last week's presidential election.
The measures come as Hispanic communities, including documented and undocumented Mexican immigrants, have expressed concern over an uptick in racially motivated attacks in the week since Donald Trumps election.
"Countryman, these are moments of uncertainty. Be calm, do not fall for provocations and don't let yourself be fooled," Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Claudia Ruiz Massieu said in a video posted to Twitter announcing the steps.
Like Ruiz Massieu, U.S. Hispanic leaders have requested people keep calm, despite doubts over how the Trump administration will enforce its immigration policy.
"I would like to see more effort on the part of the incoming administration in terms of calming people's fears as to what may come next," Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.) told The Hill.
President-elect Donald Trump, who early on in the campaign called Mexican immigrants "rapists" who "bring crime" into America, said in an interview with "60 Minutes" Sunday he thought the reported attacks on minorities in the wake of his election were "a very small amount," but was "saddened" to hear about them.
"I will say this, and I will say right to the cameras: Stop it," Trump said.
The Mexican strategy is relying on its traditional political allies in the U.S. to protect its citizens abroad.
Many big city mayors and some governors have said they will refuse to cooperate with federal authorities persecuting non-criminal aliens. As part of the 11-step plan, the Mexican government said it will increase collaboration at the state and local level.
"Reinforce dialogue with local and state authorities, in the understanding that local policies determine, in good measure, the daily life of Mexicans in the U.S.," reads step nine of the plan.
The plan also includes provisions to strengthen ties to civil rights organizations and to call for communities to avoid "any conflict situation" and "acts that could derive in administrative or criminal sanctions."
The measures will include toll-free numbers for Mexicans to call in case of emergency or for assistance with paperwork, promotion of a mobile app for Mexican citizens abroad and expansion of consular service hours.
Mexico has 50 consulates in the United States, the largest diplomatic network deployed by any single country in any other worldwide.
According to the Migration Policy Institute, there were 11.6 million Mexican immigrants in the United States in 2014. Of those, 5.8 million were undocumented, according to the Pew Research Center.
There are also more than 23 million U.S.-born people of Mexican origin, most of whom could be eligible for dual citizenship under Mexican law.
The 11-step plan includes services tailored to undocumented immigrants and for dual citizens, including those in mixed-status families.
Consulates will expand their ID program, which in many cases provides undocumented immigrants with their only government-issued ID.
Services to provide legal assistance and assistance obtaining birth certificates, both Mexican and American, will also be expanded upon.
And there you have it, a succinct and most valid question which they’ll never honestly answer because they can’t.
“Mexico has 50 consulates in the United States,....”
Uh sure they do. Like the office they ran out on Catalina Island Country Club until it was discovered the operation was illegal. Then they moved it to St. Catherines Catholic Church “citing protection under the Vienna Convention”.
I’m guessing 45 of those “50” are operating under similarly questionable circumstances.
"I would like to see more effort on the part of the outgoing administration in terms of enforcing federal law," libertylover told the world.
The Mexican elites have been exporting their indigenous population to stave off that revolution.
Saddling us with their low education castoffs and the costs associated with them has been good for Mexico and horrible for us.
I do not care what happens to Mexico when we deport their citizens back to their country.
That is their problem. They have been making it ours for far too long.
“And now Mexico is starting to whine Oh, we have no place for them.”
Kinda rings hollow when you have that little Mexican Tick Turd Nieto Pena telling all his countrymen in this country that they’re still under Mexico’s “umbrella!” Reading between the lines: “Keep sending us big chunks of your illegally-earned wages because it’s all that keeps this $hit hole afloat, but as far as coming home is concerned, forget about it!”
Ummmmmm...Mexican law doesn't apply in AMERICA!
Mexico’s system is el busto. That’s why their labor would count for so little in Mexico.
Trump is telling Mexico, here, why don’t you fix your own problem and don’t palm it off on us!
Doesn’t have any application here. That’s for when they are in Mexico.
Let me get this straight, a foreign government is threatening to violate our borders by crossing them to threaten or do harm to our people to protect citizens of theirs that have illegally crossed the American border and are, therefore, criminals, with force?
I believe that’s called an invasion and will be countered with Federal troops intent on protecting our soil. It might also constitute taking out a few of their major cities. You want war, fine. You’re outclassed.
Further more, according to 8 U.S. Code § 1481
Loss of nationality by native-born or naturalized citizen
(7) committing any act of treason against, or attempting by force to overthrow, or bearing arms against, the United States.
It means if a US citizen joins the Mexican forces and bears arms or attempts to supress US forces, they will loose their citizenship. And they’ve gotta go somewhere and can’t stay here. Bye!
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Lies. Only Trump supporters have to worry about being attacked.
The untold story...Tax rates, local, federal, state are higher because of illegal immigration. Healthcare, auto/homeowners rates higher because of illegal immigration. Education, incarceration, law enforcement costs come from tax dollars.
Let's face it, most illegal immigrants commit perjury, forgery and or fraud on government documents in an effort to gain some sort of public assistance. Many carry forged documents.
I have seen personally here in Texas on more than one occasion, illegals engaged in auto accidents because of driving while intoxicated and jump in the back seat or just out right run away on foot to avoid being arrested for DWI. Americans auto insurance rates sky rocket to cover the cost of uninsured drivers.
The cost to our society is huge and it is being hidden to protect the whole “undocumented immigrant” narrative.
Believe it or not, there are hundreds if not thousands of Mexican nationals that walk their children across the border each morning to take their kids to American schools. Read an article a few years back of a wealthy Mexican doctor just across the border bringing his wife into the U.S. to have their baby, then apply for various benefits. Setting up a post office box in the U.S. to collect government assistance. This crap goes on and on and on.
Americans are the most generous folks on the planet, but enough is enough. This all must stop.
100% totally agree!!!!!!
Well said...
San Luis, AZ is on the border south of Yuma. It is one of the fastest growing cities in the country. In 1980, the population was 1,946. The 2015 estimate was 31,091.
San Luis is also famous for having the highest proportion of federal assistance checks per capita in the country. At one time, there were actually more boxholders in the San Luis Post Office than there were people in the town.
The "suspicion" is that many Mexican Nationals in the adjacent city of San Luis, Sonora (over 200,000 pop.) have registered for federal assistance and given a San Luis, AZ P.O. Box as their address.
No federal investigation of this possibility has ever taken place. And the taxpayer money continues to flow...
All illegal alien criminals need to leave. January 20 you will be kicked out. By the way...shut up, you invaders...and losers.
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