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http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/12/21/i ... e=031n1cap



In 2008, the PRD party in Mexico city will promote the instalation of migrant houses in the United States.


The secretary general of the PRD party , Carlos Reyes Gámiz, announced in Mexico city that in 2008 the party will promote the installation of six migrant houses in states located on the neighboring northern country (U.S.) where the major number of Mexican countrymen reside, in order to become locations that will defend their rights and attend the accusations of humiliation that take place.

In front of the U.S. embassy, where he headed an act of support and solidarity with the Mexican activist Elvira Arellano and her fight to defend the rights of the undocumented, the legislator mentioned that these entities will be independent of the ones that are funded by the government of Mexico City.

"The PRD has had a past presence in the U.S. territory, where a relationship has been maintained with agencies that defend human rights, and the goal is to share a work agenda, in this environment in which xenofobia and racism have a greater fervor in that country", he referred.

"We see with sadness that, in spite of the fact that every day news of humiliations and attacks against undocumented countrymen are heard by us, the Mexican government assumes an attitude of docility in favor of the American one", he expressed, upon indicating that in the context of future elections in the United States, the movement in defense of migrants' rights should charge greater strenght.

Signatures against the deportations

During this event, Elvira Arellano made a call to the people to participate in a campaign to gather signatures that will be delivered on May first in Washington, when mobilizations in many cities in the United States will take place with the demand that all raids and deportations be halted.

"If our government is seen weak and not doing its work to defend our countrymen in the United States, the people of Mexico should make known their support. Each one of us has an undocumented relative or a friend, we cannot ignore their voices of help", she argued.