Thread: Mexican Consulate celebrates 3rd anniversary of DACA

If Mexico is not encouraging the "migration" for it's own financial gain, why is it celebrating DACA?
Mexican Consulate celebrates 3rd anniversary of DACA

Mexican Consulate celebrates 3rd anniversary of DACA

June 16, 201511:09 AM MST

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Mexican Consul General of Mexico Oscar Rodriguez Cabrera in Houston 15 June 2015

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On Monday, June 15, the Mexican Consulatehosted a ceremony commemorating the 3rd anniversary of the signature of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act , or DACA. The Act allows persons who arrived in the United States before the age of 16, have no criminal record, earned a GED or honorable discharge from the military, to obtain deferred deportation status and work permits. Once approved, DACA beneficiaries, also called “dreamers” can continue their studies or seek lawful employment.

Because many of the “Dreamers” in Houston were born in Mexico and came to the USA with their parents, the impact of DACA has been particularly felt by the Mexican community. The ceremony, entirely in Spanish, was attended by about 100 guests including students, Consults, immigration attorneys and activists working with immigration support organizations. Mexican Consul General Oscar Rodriguez Cabrera delivered the keynote address, followed by speeches by Oscar Hernandez, organizer of the Houston Branch of United We Dream, and Karia Perez, a Dreamer and recent graduate of the University of Houston who will start law school in the fall. At the close of presentations the Consul, members of the Consular Corps signed a letter to Communities benefitting from DACA (Carta a las comunidades beneficiadas por DACA).

All the speakers emphasized the wide range of opportunities and benefits of the current DACA statute and hopes for expanded reforms including President Obama's Executive Actions, now disputed in the federal courts.

http://www.examiner.com/article/mexi...ersary-of-daca

?How would that make one feel about their birth country? It celebrates your being a semi-citizen of another country, seems like rejection? Or would the celebration be for the money that comes into the country of birth? I wonder if Obama was invited?