Mexico: Pension for undocumented Seniors

FRIDAY, AUGUST 9
PROGRAM #10464 12:00 PM PT

Mexico Edition.

Migrant activists in the United States are asking Mexico to include undocumented Mexican seniors in its new pension program. Due to their immigration status, those seniors cannot receive a pension in their country of residence, the US. Analysts comment on this and on the impact of Finabien-EEUU cards, binational debit cards that allow Mexicans living in the US to send remittances at low cost.

Guests: Pablo Alvarado, Co-director, National Day Laborer Organizing Network-NDLON, Pasadena, CA; Isabel Cruz, Mixteco Anthropologist, Mexican Association of Social Sector Credit Unions-AMCUSS and a representative of Red Confianza, SC, Mexico City, MX; excerpts from recent statements by Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrado and Judge Reyes Rodríguez Mondragón, Electoral Tribunal of the Judiciary of the Federation-TEPJF.

Photo: Gobierno de México

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