The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico (SRE) reaffirmed its rejection of the anti-immigrant Law SB4 of Texas this Wednesday, when USA A hearing was held in an appeals court to analyze its validity.
“Mexico will continue to categorically reject any measure that allows state or local authorities to carry out immigration control tasks, detain or return Mexican or foreign people to Mexican territory,” the agency stated in a statement.
He added that this type of legislation not only generates international tensions, but is also “discriminatory and violating” from the human rights.
Furthermore, he assured that “In Texas, the SRE will continue to defend each and every Mexican, through its 11 consulates in the entity.”
Meanwhile, the head of the North American Unit of the SRE, Roberto Velasco, explained that at the hearing in the United States “the representative of the State recognized that ‘they went too far’ and they cannot carry out returns” to Mexico.
“Mexico’s position on the impact on our community and on the bilateral relationship weighed, as well as the firm rejection of deportations from Texas,” Velasco celebrated in a message on social networks.
Although he considered as “a very important advance” the pause of the law, warned that they will continue “pay attention to the development of the case.”
Law SB4, also known as the Texas anti-immigrant law, would allow Texas authorities to carry out immigration work, a power until now exclusive to the Federal Government.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the measure on March 18, after it took effect for a few hours following a decision by the conservative majority of the Supreme Court.
The Mexican ambassador in Washington, Esteban Moctezuma, recalled in a video that on March 21 the SRE presented an appeal known as “amis curiae” to inform “to the judicial authorities about the impact that this law would have on the rights of the community of Mexican origin, as well as its effect on the relationship between Mexico and the United States”.
He added that Mexican authorities will continue to act to safeguard the rights of nearly 10 million people of Mexican origin who live in Texas.
“To all the people who face the injustice of SB4, I want you to know that Mexico is always on your side and will defend your rights abroad out of conviction, principle and obligation of law”held.
The controversial anti-immigrant legislation was proposed last December by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who also placed a barbed fence on the border with Mexico that he refuses to remove, in a growing escalation of diplomatic tension.
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