Mexico City Protest Targets U.S. Immigration Policy
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2013-01-24
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Dozens of protesters call for immigration reform.
Dozens of protesters gathered outside the U.S. embassy in Mexico City on Monday calling on President Barack Obama to implement immigration reforms.
[Francisco Ochavira Martinez, Professor, University of Northern Tamaulipas]:
"Obama won this election because of the Latino vote. We want him to follow through with this. We want him to return the favour and keep his promises to immigrants. There should be a law. But before this law is put in place, there should be a moratorium on having more people deported."
Immigration reform is a sensitive subject for the president, who failed to fulfil his promise to revamp the system during his first term.
Latino voters were a critical part of the coalition that helped get him re-elected.
This fact may soften political opposition from Republicans, who are eager to bolster their support with that demographic group.
Obama has vowed to introduce legislation this year to overhaul the country's immigration system.
Protester Pedro Sandoval said that the American authorities unfairly deport Mexicans who are in working in the U.S.
[Pedro Sandoval, Protester]:
"It is unfair that they can grab us and throw us back here without having done anything. People are trying to work, then they grab them at work and toss him back over here."
Immigration reform supporters on the left believe that the 11 million undocumented foreigners in the United States should be allowed a path to work toward citizenship.
But opponents believe that this approach would reward people who broke the law by coming to the United States illegally.
Francisco Ochavira Martinez took both sides of the border to task:
[Francisco Ochavira Martinez, Professor, University of Northern Tamaulipas]:
"The immigration issue has become political. They seek to benefit from the issue of immigrants, and in public discourse they mention many benefits and jobs that favor the immigrant. But in practice there is no help or support for Mexican immigrants. Not in Mexico, nor in the United States."
In his inaugural speech in Washington, Obama called on Americans to embrace immigration reform and "find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as the land of opportunity."
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Dozens of protesters gathered outside the U.S. embassy in Mexico City on Monday calling on President Barack Obama to implement immigration reforms.
[Francisco Ochavira Martinez, Professor, University of Northern Tamaulipas]:
"Obama won this election because of the Latino vote. We want him to follow through with this. We want him to return the favour and keep his promises to immigrants. There should be a law. But before this law is put in place, there should be a moratorium on having more people deported."
Immigration reform is a sensitive subject for the president, who failed to fulfil his promise to revamp the system during his first term.
Latino voters were a critical part of the coalition that helped get him re-elected.
This fact may soften political opposition from Republicans, who are eager to bolster their support with that demographic group.
Obama has vowed to introduce legislation this year to overhaul the country's immigration system.
Protester Pedro Sandoval said that the American authorities unfairly deport Mexicans who are in working in the U.S.
[Pedro Sandoval, Protester]:
"It is unfair that they can grab us and throw us back here without having done anything. People are trying to work, then they grab them at work and toss him back over here."
Immigration reform supporters on the left believe that the 11 million undocumented foreigners in the United States should be allowed a path to work toward citizenship.
But opponents believe that this approach would reward people who broke the law by coming to the United States illegally.
Francisco Ochavira Martinez took both sides of the border to task:
[Francisco Ochavira Martinez, Professor, University of Northern Tamaulipas]:
"The immigration issue has become political. They seek to benefit from the issue of immigrants, and in public discourse they mention many benefits and jobs that favor the immigrant. But in practice there is no help or support for Mexican immigrants. Not in Mexico, nor in the United States."
In his inaugural speech in Washington, Obama called on Americans to embrace immigration reform and "find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as the land of opportunity."
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