TRANSLATED FROM:
http://www.presidencia.gob.mx/prensa/?contenido=35130

I come to Texas, friends, to tell you several things.

First, that we admire you, we admire you for the courage and the bravery you have to risk it all, to go to a land that is not yours.

Second, that we infinitely thank you, we thanked because the poorest families of Mexico, that are the families of where you left and emigrated from, have been able to survive to financial crisis, to economic errors, to corruption, to disorder, to so many tragedies that have occurred in our country, they have been able to survive thanks to the shipment of remittances, from the son that remebers his mother and the husband who remembers his children.

I also come to tell you that we miss you, we miss you a lot, that in my case, as in the case, I believe that of the majority of the michoacanos, we all have someone on this side: cousins, brothers-in-law, friends, aunts and uncles, some of them that we know that never we will see them again while laws don't change here. That cannot move from where they are.

Many times the press asks me: well where are you cousins, your friends? I greet them every day each time that I am able and I tell them: the day there is an immigration reform, I am going to tell them where my cousins and my friends are.