Posted on 11/07/2021 1:05:39 PM PST by River Hawk
Mexico is planning to open a new consulate in Oklahoma City, the capital of Oklahoma.
Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Kevin Stitt just returned from a trip to Mexico, where he discussed the proposed consulate with Mexican officials.
But the installation of a Mexican consulate in Oklahoma is a very bad idea, and Oklahomans should oppose it.
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I could be wrong but I think the Constitution is pretty clear on the idea that states have little or no role in diplomacy with foreign governments. That’s not to say that a consulate in Oklahoma City is a good idea, just that a state’s governor doesn’t get to make the call.
Doesn’t Mexico have a consulate in Washington DC???
That’s the ONLY place where a Mexican Consulate should be...Our nation’s capitol...
Nowadays state governors have a lot to do with foreign affairs, they shouldn’t but they do. And if a state governor is totally onboard with setting up a foreign consulate it makes it much more likely to happen.
Don’t do it. Many of them have been looking for some loophole somewhere just to get things going. Give ‘em an inch, they take 100,000 miles. Not a joke.
LOL
We had a Mexican Consulate here in Anchorage Ak.
Closed for “budgetary reasons”
(https://www.alaskapublic.org/2015/09/24/anchorages-mexican-consulate-will-close-in-november/)
Not enough (illegals) to keep it pen...
Already one in San Antonio, been there for years.
They’re all over the US and full of activist lawyers as well.
A lot of countries put smaller consulates in other cities besides Washington. Years ago, I needed a visa to visit France, and I went to the French consulate in Manhattan to get it processed on the spot. If I had to send off to Washington to get it done, I probably would have been back from my trip before the darned thing was even looked at, let alone processed!
[shrug] I figure the Mexicans own our entire Southwest, so they can do whatever they want.
Change my mind.
Embassies and ambassadors are in national capitals and consulates and consuls and consul generals (my late father was one) are in regional capitals.
Well at least okie illegals will have access to their Matrícula Consular cards without relying on a swap meet. Nothing more reliable than a foreign ID card with a US address.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matr%C3%ADcula_Consular
Doesn’t Mexico have a consulate in Washington DC
It, like other counties has consulates scattered about the nation. This works both ways. Mexicans and Americans in need of official advice or help regarding the Mexican government don’t have to travel to DC to get it. The U.S. has 18 consulates in Mexico while Mexico has 50 in the U.S.
“Doesn’t Mexico have a consulate in Washington DC???”
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Every embassy has a consular section to provide services like visas, passports, and assistance to citizens abroad. As others have noted, many countries establish consular offices in large cities in countries where they already have an embassy. This is a convenience for both their citizens and those host country nationals needing to make official contact with that country.
Example: as a US Army officer in West Germany, I was the Battalion Personnel Officer (S-1) and the Re-enlistment NCO worked for me. He took an extended leave abroad as he was approaching retirement but failed to return on the appointed day of his leave papers. He had gone to Thailand with a potential business partner so we sent word through the US Consulate in Frankfurt to see if he could be found by consular officials in Cambodia. I went to Frankfurt to get briefings on the search status and they were the ones to contact me to let me know he’d been located. They made arrangements for his return to military control in West Germany.
Having a Mexican consulate in OKC is really not any different than that US Consulate in Frankfurt.
Hey, thanks folks...
I confused Consulate with Embassy...My fault...Again, thank you, folks...
No but he’s entitled to meddle in the process.
What all happens at a consulate? My mom and I went to the British Consulate in New Orleans in 1998 to sign the sympathy book for Princess Diana.
It was a bit misleading to call it the “British Consultate” though. One woman ran the entire office. So the same office was the Consulate for a dozen or more other countries.
This was before 9/11; anyone could come in off the street.
In general this is not the case for an embassy. The embassies are open to the general public for maybe a week or two during the summer.
Generally, Embassies are in capitols, and Consulates are distributed across the country, especially in geographically large countries like the USA. This makes perfect sense and minimizes travel to access consular services of that nation.
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