Mexico recognizes new immigration regularization plan in the United States

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) of Mexico recognized the announcement of the president of the United States, Joe Biden, on the creation of a new plan to regularize more than half a million undocumented migrants.

The measure, announced by the White House in the morning, allows migrants who do not have legal status in the US and are married to Americans to begin the process to obtain a residence permit without having to leave the country.

“Approximately 500,000 spouses and 50,000 children of US citizens, the vast majority Mexican or Mexican-Americancould benefit from this process, thus avoiding family separation and promoting greater stability and certainty about their future,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Furthermore, the SRE indicated that these new measures “will promote family unity and facilitate the residency application processes in the United States for foreign spouses of US citizens,” and will more efficiently integrate young beneficiaries of the DACA program into the US economy. .

The new immigration relief is one of the most important since the Barack Obama Administration created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in 2012.

“I am not interested in making immigration and the border a political game,” Biden said at an event at the White House attended by legislators, officials and activists in favor of migrant rights.

Biden’s speech took place, precisely, at an event to celebrate 12 years of DACA, which has allowed more than 800,000 people to obtain a work permit and be protected from deportation.

During his speech, the president resumed the pro-immigrant rhetoric that helped bring him to the presidency, nuanced under a defense of the restrictions on asylum on the border with Mexico that he enacted two weeks ago.

In your note, The SRE said that Mexico, on several occasions, has stated that one of its highest priorities in the bilateral relationship is protection and regularization of our compatriots in the United States.

In that sense, he recognized as “positive the measures announced with the certainty that strengthening our relationship under a good neighbor policy, respecting the sovereignty of the people and promoting economic cooperation, is the correct route to guarantee safe migration. orderly, regular and humane.”

“Both nations must continue to promote openness and willingness to guarantee that those who intend to migrate outside their countries of origin can do so through regular channels (…) avoiding at all costs falling into xenophobic or discriminatory actions,” he noted.

This Tuesday, The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, considered the new program “very good news.”

“The news is very good that Mexican families in the United States are going to be regularized, especially students, young people, it is worthy of recognition that President (Joe) Biden acts in this way,” said López Obrador.

The United States Government hopes that the regularization plan announced today will come into force this summer and will give migrants the opportunity to take only the first step in the process to obtain a residence permit in the country, which can last for years.

Migrants who will be able to benefit from this program have lived in the US for an average of 23 years, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security.

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