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August 4, 2022  |  By RCM Admin En News, Press Release

U.S. Citizens in Mexico: Displaced Without Protection

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[Guadalajara, Jal. August 4, 2022] More than 4 million Mexican migrants have been deported from the United States since 2008. During the same period, a significant number of Mexican migrants returned, forcibly or voluntarily, to Mexico as a result of family obligations, unfavorable economic and labor market conditions in the United States, and stricter enforcement of U.S. immigration policy and laws. The exodus of Mexican migrants from the United States has entailed an equally significant departure of U.S. citizen spouses and children to Mexico. This has contributed to an extraordinary growth of the U.S.-citizen population in Mexico, with Mexico now outpacing Canada and the European Union as the home of the largest U.S. population outside of the United States. While no official count exists of the number of U.S. citizens leaving the United States due to deportation or return migration, the U.S. State Department estimates that 1.6 million Americans now live in Mexico. Based on Mexican school records, more than 550,000 of these are the U.S.-born children of Mexican migrants. Though the State Department recognizes the vulnerability of young U.S. citizens in Mexico, there have not yet been significant or consistent efforts to identify affected U.S. citizens, through either official counting or citizen services outreach. Such efforts can no longer be delayed since, based on interviews with displaced U.S. citizens in Mexico, a vast majority of them intend to return to the United States one day.

The need for a census and assessment of needs is key, given that citizens who emigrate with their Mexican family members often experience persistent disadvantages in Mexico, including the inability to access U.S. or Mexican documentation, limited or no access to health services and preventative health care, job disintegration, restricted mobility, and reduced educational attainment. Moreover, the loss of language, identity, culture, and community further contribute to future social vulnerability if these individuals later decide to reenter U.S. society. Given the serious and simultaneous barriers and vulnerabilities U.S. citizens face in Mexico, this report maintains that, without improved consular services and a diaspora policy that anticipates the likely return of these Americans, the United States risks re-inheriting a U.S. population now the size of Delaware, which may well require critical government services to reintegrate after a prolonged period abroad.

To access our full report commissioned by the Baker Institute of Public Policy at Rice University’s Center for the United States and Mexico, visit:
http://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/us-citizens-in-mexico-displaced-without-protection.

About the Baker Institute
The Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico seeks to have a meaningful impact on the U.S.-Mexico relationship through original research, relevant solutions to binational policy issues, and the advancement of mutual understanding by convening leaders who can bridge the world of ideas and the world of action

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In a world that seeks to erase your existence, you are not invisible to us. To all those who proudly assert their identity during #chicanofest, and who continue to fight for a place in this world, we see you and we are with you. Our favorite photo from yesterday's events with the binational community in Guadalajara is the photo of Senator Karina Ruíz with el rapero chicano Sonik 4:20, up and coming rapera Luna Fortuna—she blew us away!—and drug addiction counselor and founder of Guanatos G.D.L.S.U.R. and Chicano Fest, Roberto Hernández. Thank you for you vision, hard work, and love, Robert, and to the senadora del migrante for traveling to Guadalajara to spend #5demayo with us!@karina_migrante@chicanxs_sin_fronteras @matt_sedillo @caminantasred @fm4pasolibre @coincide.iteso @suerteverde11 @sonik420_oficial @lunafortunamx Galo Canote

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"We are not here because the government has a commitment to us. We are here because we need this for us."We are so grateful to have been invited to this electrifying convening of formerly incarcerated, immigration system-impacted, and prison reform activists. During the 3-day event organized by @theundergroundscholars and @incarcerationnations, actors from both the United States and Mexico convened in Mexico City to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the PESCER program, @cc_uacm's college-in-prison program. A prison that can convert itself into a classroom becomes a refuge—a place of resistance and imagination. The convening marked the need to rethink the modern prison system, and promote reentry service support in Mexico and the integration of deported people into higher education systems. Our hats off to Danny Murillo, Rick Zepeda, and Dr. Baz Dreisinger for your vision and love, and to all those who never lost hope.

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While in Guatemala, we met with deported veteran, Sergio Andrade, whose family arrived in the United States at the start of the Guatemalan Civil War. He later enlisted in the U.S. Army and honorably served from 1977-1980. Like hundreds of other immigrant veterans who put their lives on the line for the American people, the United States not only failed to naturalize him but later dishonorably deported him to the country his family fled. Cast away in 2002, he has struggled to survive—witnessing or directly experiencing armed violence dozens of times. Now in his late 60s, his health is declining and he is far away from the physical and emotional support of his surviving family members and any VA facility. His harrowing story of courage and endurance is preserved as part of the digital archive of @deportedveteransdiasporamural in Tijuana and was first told by roaming activist and brother in arms @nick_paz in 2022. After hearing Sergio's story in person, The Rhizome Center for Migrants is committed to ensuring he receives the benefits he earned as a veteran of the United States, and his safe passage back to his family and country.No #veteran should ever be exiled from the United States. Join the movement: defendourvets.com/ #hr4569

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