It is very likley that MEX president Felipe Calderon will be in Los Angeles during those days, since he mentioned that he will Tour Los Angeles, Chicago and New York in February in support of amnesty for his countrymen.
Forward this message to all Americans, so those who live in L.A. can plan ahead with mayor protests!!! Time and Address information will be given at a later date.

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"That the Mexican Congress and the Migrant Parliament support the efforts of the mobilizations that will be carried out on May first, International Migrant's Day, in Washington, D.C. and other cities, as well as the 2nd National Migrant Rights Conference to be celebrated in Los Angeles, during February the 22nd and the 23rd, 2008. "

This Migrant Parlament will be similar to the one held in the Mexican Congress on November 16th and 17th, where Elvira Arellano and other legislators critisized the United States Goverment's immigration enforcement policies.

Here are some quotes:

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The Congress President, Congresswoman Ruth Zavaleta Salgado:

"The initiative, proposed by the Plural Commission of Legislators, conformed jointly by the Commission of Population, Borders and Migratory Matters of the Chamber of Representatives, as well as by the Commission of Northern Border Matters of the Senate of the Republic, event that honors our commitment with the Mexican migrants, which for economic reasons they have had to abandon this country to find solution to their needs. "


"It is not possible that upon leaving this naton, you leave behind legitimate civic rights. It is neither admissible that upon arriving to American territory, they be denied the most elementary labor rights, as if by touching the border, their legal protection rights had been suspended, including liberty and the dignity of people in the two bordering countries."

"That absence of recognition, here and there, today has to be corrected. Discrimination, abuse, exploitation and another series of injustices have been the constant stories of life that have been heard by friends and compatriots in long chats, in various moments, in different places. In many occasions I have felt anguish, in others rage, but above all, I have felt the need to help some way so that those injustices be finished."

"The national pride to be a Mexican, which represents our traditions, history, culture, does not finish at the border, does not change just because we find ourselves in another country. To the contrary, it seems to me that it deepens, it enlarges, the sensation of happiness grows when we listen our to National Anthem, our songs, our language. It is so big, that a piece of paper cannot take that away."
"By that reason is that our legislators modified the law to offer greater rights to the Mexicans that live outside country. We understand that in many occasions the decision to move outside the country to seek new horizons constitutes a very painful decision. Family, friends, and their own land is left behind."

"Being Mexican or to be Mexican is part of us and what the great majority of our countrymen have done with their children born outside this country has been to instill them the love for their country, for Mexico, for their customs, be that of Yucatan or of Sonora, of Oaxaca or of Guerrero, of where where they are from, they will always have their traditions attached to their daily life."

"I am convinced that the greatness of Mexico, aside from their culture and history, is fundamentally their people, and the commitment from us, as legislators, is to defend our compatriots at any place where they are located."

"Guarding the respect of human and civil rights of our migrant countrymen in the place where they be found is an inescapable obligation. Before you, we assume the commitment to find the norms and laws that protect against abuses and injustices, and if we do this together, we will have, without a doubt, better results and propositions that contribute to the solution of our large problems."


"The representatives before you, offer a commitment of national unity in favor of our resident Mexican families in the American Union, to support institutional negotiations among the authorities of that country, and to find favorable solutions to the problem of legal status of the Mexican workers that are found in that territory."

"We reject categorically the racist arguments that consider the migrant worker as a terrorist and that for the sake of national security they have attacked those who by being undocumented or immigrants are found in conditions of disadvantage and defenselessness."

Congressman JosĂ© Edmundo RamĂ*rez MartĂ*nez:

"I trust that this First Parliament will be the ice-breaker to give start to new actions that promotes the legislative and executive powers, to encourage to insist, to prompt and to summarize a necessary migratory agreement that has the recognition of both countries on the prevailing need to recognize, and not small-change, the rights that legitimately correspond to us; right that are inherent in the human nature and that they are over any political consideration, above any nation and above any interest."

Congressman José Jacques y Medina:

"We are here with that intention to discuss the ways in which we are going to organize to defend our acquired rights. The ones that we know that we have, those of us that have lived over there (U.S.) for so many years and that so working hours have remained in the businesses, in the industries, in the services, in the agricultural fields. All those rights acquired, all that antiquity, we are not going to renounce. We are going to fight for those rights because they are a part of the patrimony of this nation, our nation, of Mexico."

Elvira Arellano:

"For years we have complained that the migrants in the United States have been abandoned by our government. When the United States treats us as criminals and terrorist our government remains quiet. When they deport a mother, a boy or a worker, our government remains quiet."

"We want that a migratory agreement be a priority in the agenda of Mexico Unido and, very especially, that it be a matter of greater importance in the agenda of our Mexican government."

Senator Luis Alberto Villarreal GarcĂ*a:

"I have a dream that one day this nation will raise itself and will live the true meaning of its creed. We maintain, this truths as evindent that all men are created equal, so said Martin Luther King."

"Throughout the American territory laws and measures have been approved that have as main objective the abuse, the harassment, the pursuit of our people to bring them the most difficult life."

"This logic of the all or nothing. This logic of the absurd war against all and against all. This logic of the useless and ignominious walls. This logic of the raids, of the arbitrary detentions, of the punishments to those who employ our compatriots or rent them a place to live. This logic of those who punish those whom offer them any type of assistance to our compatriots. This colorblind logic that avoids the xenophobics to see that the United States of North America is composed by a polycromatic society, they deserve our most firm and energetic rejection."

"What happend with the country of civil freedom and of respect for human rights? Perhaps they have forgot that they are part of the International Pact of civil and Political law, which explicitly prohĂ*bits detentions and arbitrary arrests and ot establishes that every deprivation of liberty of a person has to be strictly attached to the law, and that it also prohĂ*bits that nobody can be an object of an arbitrary interferences to their privacy, their family, their residence,without due process? "

"They also have forgoten that they signed the Convention of the United Nations regarding the rights of a child, the one that establishes that an infant should not be separated of its parents, except with their expressed consent, unless the separation be in the interest of the child?"

"How far are they to comply with their 23rd constitutional amendment that expresses that slavery and forced servitude are prohibited in the United States of North America, and with these measures of pursuit, and of harassment, they are legalizing slavery against the memory of those who fought in the past and won the respect of their nation."