{"id":23909,"date":"2020-11-25T11:40:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T16:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=23909"},"modified":"2020-11-25T11:40:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T16:40:49","slug":"mexico-ambassador-mass-migration-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/11\/25\/mexico-ambassador-mass-migration-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico\u2019s Ambassador Calls For Resuming Mass Migration To The U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During a November 17 virtual discussion, Mexico\u2019s ambassador<\/a>, Martha Barcena Coqui, told the pro-mass-migration National Immigration Forum (NIF) that immigration to the U.S. \u201chas to be based on facts and realities,\u201d which essentially means resuming mass migration, including temporary guestworker programs, and \u201ckeep[ing]open generosity towards refugees\u201d in a post-COVID-19 world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While recognizing that the coronavirus and resulting border closures and lockdowns have served to significantly tamp down mass migration, Mexico\u2019s chief diplomat in the U.S. points out<\/a> that the root causes (economic problems plus droughts) are still there and growing. As such, she argues, we need to find \u201cthe right avenues to process this migration, to have an orderly, safe, and regular migration [which]the global compact negotiated in the UN has as a goal.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this may at first sound relatively innocuous, it\u2019s important to remember that Mrs. Barcena Coqui is using \u201cdiplomat speak,\u201d to press her own political agenda. Moreover, her invocation of the United Nations\u2019 Migration Compact should be cause for concern given the threat it poses<\/a> to the rights of sovereign nations to control their borders and migration policies. (Note: Mexico is a signatory, but the U.S. is not.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mexican ambassador also asserted that the United\nStates needs to \u201coverhaul\u201d its immigration system, and, in particular, bring in\nmore \u201crefugees,\u201d because \u201cpeople are waiting\u201d (Madam Ambassador seems to\nbelieve that the Central American migrants attempting to stream into the U.S.\nvia Mexico are \u201crefugees,\u201d rather than mainly economic migrants using asylum as\na magic word to get into our country). She also criticized the U.S. and its\n\u201cremain in Mexico\u201d policy \u2013 the intent of which was to stem the border crisis\nand asylum abuse \u2013 as a case of \u201coutsourcing\u201d the problem to Mexico.\nInterestingly, however, she pushed back against the claims that Mexico is \u201ctoo\ndangerous\u201d a country for Central American or Caribbean (Cuban and Haitian)\nasylum applicants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps most problematically, Mrs. Barcena Coqui\nlectured Americans on how they should view immigration: \u201cIf you conceptualize\nmigration as a national security issue, if you [push for]securitization of\nmigration, and what is even worse, if you criminalize migration, then your\napproach always [will]be policing, contentious [and]reduction of migration.\nSo what we need is really to conceptualize migration \u2026  as an economic and social and political\nphenome[non].\u201d And, she emphasized, we should view everything \u2013 from migration\nthrough refugees to COVID-19 vaccines \u2013 from a \u201cglobal perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response, Rosemary Jenks, policy director at NumbersUSA, told Breitbart News<\/a> that \u201cthe Mexican ambassador is going to tell us what is in the best interest of Mexico. But that doesn\u2019t mean we have to do it \u2014 we have to do what\u2019s in the best interest of the United States, of Americans, and legal immigrants.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies was even more blunt, stating that \u201cwith all due respect to Madam Ambassador, she should mind her own country\u2019s business, not ours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While calling for the U.S. to reopen itself to mass migration, Mexico\u2019s ambassador was essentially expressing the perspective of the country\u2019s governing elites for decades<\/a> (for more proof, see here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>). Historian Victor Davis Hanson described<\/a> it succinctly back in 2002:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMexico\u2019s policy for a half-century has been the\ndeliberate and illegal export of millions of its poorest citizens to the United\nStates, which is expected to educate, employ, and protect them in ways not\npossible at home. Only that way has the chronically corrupt Mexican government\navoided a revolution, as its exploited underclass (\u2026) headed north, rather than\nmarching en masse<\/em> on Mexico City. Only that way can billions of earned\nforeign currency be sent home to prop up a bankrupt economy; only that way for\nthe first time in his life can a poor Mixtec from Michoacan find an advocate\nfor his health and safety from the Mexican consulate\u2014once he is safely\nensconced far north of the border.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not much has changed since then \u2013 other than the Trump administration\u2019s success in finally getting Mexico to stop allowing Central American migrant caravans to pass through unimpeded \u2013 and the same words might as well be applied to the attitudes of elites and governments in many other places<\/a> \u2013 from Central America<\/a> through Africa to the Middle East. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, there is nothing wrong with a country\u2019s\nambassador promoting what she believes is in her nation\u2019s interest. That\u2019s the\nmain part of the job. But the question remains: is mass unchecked migration\nreally in the best interest of people in Mexico, Central America, and many\nother countries in the world? Or is it merely in the best interests of\npolitical elites in those countries to encourage their own citizens to\nemigrate, rather than to take care of their own people and make life in those\nnations more desirable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During a November 17 virtual discussion, Mexico\u2019s ambassador, Martha Barcena Coqui, told the pro-mass-migration National Immigration Forum (NIF) that immigration to the U.S. \u201chas to be based on facts and realities,\u201d which essentially means resuming mass migration, including temporary guestworker programs, and \u201ckeep[ing]open generosity towards refugees\u201d in a post-COVID-19 world. While recognizing that the coronavirus<\/p>\n

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