Mexico's Foreign Minister calls for unity in defense of migrants

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Mexico's Foreign Minister, Juan Ramón de la Fuente, called for unity in defense of Mexican nationals, regardless of their immigration status or location, in order to face the challenges ahead. teleSUR

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00:00Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs Juan Ramón Lafuente has ratified that the country

00:05is ready to receive migrants deported from the United States under the best conditions.

00:09This is what he said during the consultative forum for the elaboration of a national development

00:13plan 2025-2030 held in the northwestern state of Sonora this Monday.

00:19President-elect Donald Trump's anti-immigrant law has started its countdown, and in fact

00:23Congress is about to approve the law that allows deportations, with the support of Democrats

00:27included.

00:28The Secretary explained that Mexico's consular network in the United States is ready to provide

00:33comprehensive assistance to its nationals.

00:42As migration in these times plays a fundamental role for individual and collective development,

00:52that is why we reiterate it again, and you, in different ways in your work tables, reflect

00:56it with your conclusions.

00:57Those who want to return to our country or who are forced to return will be welcomed

01:00with open arms, and with all the opportunities they deserve to reinsert themselves in the

01:11productive work life, to have health services, education, social protection and security.

01:16That is the commitment of the government of President Scheinbaum, and is the priority

01:20of Mexican foreign policy.

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