Gerardo joined The Rhizome Center for Migrants’ legal team in Guadalajara in May 2022, from St. Mary’s School of Law in San Antonio, Texas, where he is a rising 3L. After visiting Mexico for the first time in over 20 years, and just six weeks into his legal internship, Gerardo, a DACA recipient since 2015, […]
[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 […]
[Guadalajara, Jal. June 7, 2021] Today, Mexican civil society organizations sent a letter to Vice President Kamala Harris during her trip to Mexico underscoring, among other things, the need for immigration reform that provides a solution for the growing number of people in Mexico—now millions—who remain separated from their families, exiled from their country, or […]
Click here to read this letter in English. Estimados Sr. Presidente, Sra. Vicepresidente, Senador Menéndez, Representante Sánchez y dirigentes de caucus: Escribimos como organizaciones de la sociedad civil de Estados Unidos y México que trabajan por los inmigrantes y los inmigrantes retornados de esta región. Los felicitamos por el proyecto del plan de inmigración anunciado […]
Haga clic aquí para ver esta carta en español. Dear Mr. President, Senator Menéndez, Representative Sánchez, and caucus leadership, We are writing as U.S. and Mexican civil society organizations who serve the immigrants and returned immigrants of this region. We congratulate you on the proposed immigration plan announced on January 20, 2021. We celebrate the […]
[Guadalajara, Jal. November 16, 2020] There are currently an estimated 35,000 to 75,000 intercountry adoptees who do not have U. S. citizenship. The Child Citizenship Act of 2000 made it possible for many foreign-born children to gain automatic citizenship. However, it did not cover adoptees who were 18 or older at that time and already […]
[Guadalajara, Jal. August 18, 2020] Today The Rhizome Center for Migrants joined over 170 U.S. leading immigration and advocacy organizations in releasing the 2021 Immigration Action Plan, laying out a blueprint for the next administration to restore human dignity to a system weaponized by the Trump administration, reinforce core American values, and power the economic […]
[Guadalajara, Jal. July 21, 2020] Today The Rhizome Center for Migrants joined a regional coalition of 41 organizations in requesting a multi-country thematic hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The request calls on the Commission to protect human rights in the American hemisphere by addressing the wide-ranging impacts of recent U.S. migration policies […]
[Guadalajara, Jal. July 30, 2019] Each year, undocumented workers in the United States contribute billions to the U.S. Social Security system. However, when they retire, because of their undocumented status in the U.S. workforce, they will not have access to the federal public benefits of retired workers. Their inability to draw from their contributions, and the […]
[Guadalajara, Jal. April 30, 2019] Among the children we’re thinking of today as we advocate, promote, and celebrate children’s rights in Mexico, are the more than 600,000 American children whose lives cut across the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. immigration laws continue to prevent undocumented parents from remaining in the United States with their minor, U.S.-born children. […]
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