Congressmen and migrant leaders lash out against Congresswoman Dolores Gonzales

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Migrant leaders agree to create a permanent parliament in the U.S.


They require the Mexican president to denounce the militarization against the undocumented.

In a historic decision, leaders of migrant Mexicans agreed to constitute a Permanent Parliament of Migrant in the United States, plural and independent of governments and political parties of both countries, with the main task to defend and to promote the interests of the migrant that live in that territory and now they face one of terrible, racist and cruel broadside".

It approved by the full one of the first Parliament of Mexican Migrant Leaders that live in the United States, that was in session in the precinct of the Chanber of Representatives, this new intity will be conformed by social organizations and physical people that share its objective, with representations in the United States. This assembly will be carried out in the first months of 2008, tentatively in Washington.

Besides, the Mexican leaders agreed to ask president Felipe Calderon to require the American government to"halt the militarization" against the unodcumented, and to resort to all the international legal bodies to denounce the violations of human rights and the deaths in the border.

Approved by the assembly of Mexican Migrant Leaders, appointed to a committee with the representation of migrant organizations with presence in 28 states in the U.S.

The proposals arisen of the three desks that were in session in San Lazarus were approved, after surpassing the refusal of some of the migrant leaders that asked that they form part of the Institute of the Mexicans abroad (IME), linked with the federal government.

In its refusal underlies the idea that this permanent parliament would replace IME, agency that has an administrative character and is linked with the Mexican federal Executive as organ consultant.

During the recess for the designation of the commission that will organize the assembly constituent, the representative Panista Dolores González attacked the parliament. "I delcare this act closed, because this is a show that I am not going to tolerate and permit", she said in pressence of representatives. This was the second day in which the legislator declared against the efforts of the migrant parliament.

Several leaders of the initiative explained after that the agencies can function in a parallel way without any problem and aiding, with their faculties, to the migrant and Mexican community in the United States.

In the three tables in which the work of the parliament was divided, there was an large number of approaches, among which they emphasized greater presence of migrant leaders in state, federal, and legislative representations; greater resources to the network of consular protection, a special fund for the repatriation of the remainders of migrants who died on the border, reduction in the commissions of businesses that are dedicated to theshipment of remittances, greater resources for attention of the education of migrant,children, enlargement of the program Three for One, in social projects, and that the federal government believes a program of incentives that facilitate the investment of the migrant in national territory.