Addressing concerns of immigrants in rural areas

Leaders of California’s Central Valley recently received the legislators who were elected in the last electoral process to represent Mexicans living abroad in the House of Representatives and the Senate, mainly in the United States, where more than 90 percent of Mexican nationals reside.

The four recently elected migrant legislators visited the Central Valley of California to talk with their fellow Mexicans and listen to their needs, and they also committed themselves to manage legislative initiatives to address the concerns of Mexicans living in rural areas.

The pro-immigrant activist from the Central Valley of California, Jose Ireta, explains the reason for the visit of the representatives, congressmen and senators.
Through them we want them to speak out so that our people can come out of the shadows.

Through them we want them to speak out to bring our people out of the shadows.

Reelected Congresswoman Olga Leticia Chávez Rojas, outgoing Congressman Mario Torres, alternate Senator Octavia Hernández and Senator-elect Karina Ruiz, who is a Dreamer, are the representatives in the Mexican Congress of the Mexican citizens living abroad.

Arturo Garcia, a local activist and member of the Morena party’s national congress, comments on one of the demands of the countrymen, who want to be treated with dignity and have their problems attended to at the consulates.

Eliseo Gamiño, political leader and representative before the school government of a town in the Central Valley region, and Morena sympathizer, talks about the problem that afflicts the fellow countrymen who are looking for appointments and cannot find them because they are sold.

Lupe Cervantes, organizer of Morena in Fresno and host of the delegation of legislators and representatives talks about the objectives of the meeting.

Other issues raised by the pro-immigrant leaders were the lack of public safety in Mexico, corruption, facilitating the procedures for moving goods and the historical debt to the migrants who were part of the Bracero Program and who continue to die without receiving their money.