Friday, March 29

For the unity of the Americas — legalization for undocumented immigrants

By: Juan José Gutiérrez Updated 23 May 2022, 17: 10 pm EDT

The IX Summit of the Americas begins on June 6. This very important conclave will be held from June 6 to 10 at the Los Angeles City Convention Center. For this great event, it was the turn of the host to the president of the United States, Joe Biden.
Heads of State of the are invited to attend nations that make up the American Continent.
However, since April, the Summit has already carried an important political controversy . From Havana, Cuba, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, denounced that the US authorities were conspiring to exclude them from the meeting.
Days later, the situation worsened when the assistant to the US Department of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Brian A. Nichols, made it publicly known that President Biden did not plan to invite nations whose heads of state did not “respect norms as well as democratic processes in their respective countries,” and mentioned Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua by name.
These statements were followed by those of the President of Mexico who, in “La mañanera” prior to beginning his tour that would take him to visit Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Belize, and Cuba reported their decision not to attend the Summit if the hosts “excluded any American nation.” He repeated this message during his tour of Central America, but in Cuba he went further and demanded the immediate cessation, by the United States, of its criminal “political, economic and financial blockade” of that revolutionary and heroic people.
The firm position of the President of Mexico not to attend the Summit of the Americas, if there are exclusions, called on Mexicans to reflection since it is the first time that a Mexican president expresses himself in that way before the Executive of the most powerful nation in the world. There is no doubt that this forceful reasoning has penetrated deep into the upper echelons of American power since — as history dictates — it is the kind of language understood by the upper echelons of American power, who have not been in the least disturbed the diplomatic and tepid positions of previous Mexican governments.
There should be no doubt, when President López Obrador speaks with such energy, he stands out among the Mexicans who perceive him and they understand him as the president that contemporary Mexico had not had, endowing him with stature and moral value as a Latin American leader, and as a great statesman of the 21st century.
As far as I am concerned, I agree with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. We live in a new era and the time has come for brotherhood among all Americans to share and prosper, without exclusions.
It is up to me to emphasize my unconditional solidarity with all the efforts he makes in his capacity as President of Mexico to bring his New Nation Project (the 4T). I declare this because the members of the MORENA Party are the first trench of the Fourth Transformation in the American Union.

I cannot ignore that last day 20 in May, members of the Full Rights for the Undocumented Coalition, the MORENA Party and the Lopezobradorista National Front called on the Mexican/Latino community of Southern California, through the local media, to join the March and Rally to be held on Thursday, June 9. As the organizers explained, to demand immigration reform for the millions of undocumented immigrants who have been waiting for it for more than 36 years.
We need to unite and organize ourselves because only in this way will we be able to get both Congress and President Biden to listen to us and express their political will without which progress can be made to make immigration reform a reality. I am convinced that for this reason alone the slogan embodied in the banner of said March and Meeting “For the Unity of the Americas – Legalization for All” will go deep and sooner rather than later the long-awaited Reform will become a reality.

Juan José Gutiérrez, is the director of the Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition as well as National Councilor of the MORENA Party.