{"id":24065,"date":"2021-01-21T12:59:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T17:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24065"},"modified":"2021-01-21T12:59:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T17:59:05","slug":"mexico-eyes-dual-citizenship-with-amnesty-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/01\/21\/mexico-eyes-dual-citizenship-with-amnesty-package\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico Eyes Dual Citizenship With Amnesty Package"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With its sputtering economy relying on remittances from U.S.-based workers, Mexico is promoting dual citizenship as part of President Joe Biden\u2019s amnesty<\/a> program for millions of Mexicans living illegally in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have been proposing that our countrymen who have been working for years should be regularized, contributing to the development of that great nation,\u201d\u00a0Mexican President Andres Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador<\/a> said hours before Biden was sworn into office on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amnesty and dual citizenship \u2013 also known as dual nationality \u2013 is an especially big deal for America\u2019s southern neighbor. More than 5 million Mexican nationals<\/a> live and work illegally in the U.S., constituting the largest share of this country\u2019s illegal population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLegalization of Mexican nationals in the United States here illegally will secure their presence, and increase their wages and therefore their ability to send money back to [their]country,\u201d says Andrew Arthur of the Center for Immigration Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remittances<\/a> from the U.S. to Mexico topped $37 billion in 2020, exceeding income from tourism and oil exports<\/a>, and constituting 3.8 percent of Mexico’s total gross domestic product, which has been shrinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lopez Obrador has urged his countrymen in the U.S. to keep shipping money home. Calling remittance-sending Mexicans \u201cour living heroes,\u201d<\/a> he implored them \u201cnot [to]stop thinking about their loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seizing on\nBiden\u2019s amnesty proposal, Lopez Obrador wants dual citizenship as part of the\npackage \u201cto respect [Mexicans\u2019] right to be recognized, that they get dual\nnationality.\u201d But the arrangement has drawbacks, exposing qualifying Mexicans\nto taxation in both countries while denying them the right to vote in Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As always, it\u2019s about the\nmoney, and Mexico\u2019s leader sees dual citizens in the U.S. as a win-win\nproposition for his country\u2019s stumbling economy.\n\n\n\n\n\n\u0001<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With its sputtering economy relying on remittances from U.S.-based workers, Mexico is promoting dual citizenship as part of President Joe Biden\u2019s amnesty program for millions of Mexicans living illegally in America. \u201cWe have been proposing that our countrymen who have been working for years should be regularized, contributing to the development of that great nation,\u201d\u00a0Mexican<\/p>\n

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