2023-06-13 08:20:01
- The new headquarters has adequate facilities that give rise to a better service and allow people to be attended to with greater efficiency and accessibility.
As directed by the president Lopez Obrador, the central priority of our foreign policy is the protection of the Mexican community in the United States. In this sense, we continue with concrete results that reflect our commitment: this week we will inaugurate the new building of the General Consulate of Mexico in Miami.
The new headquarters has adequate facilities that give rise to a better service and allow people to be attended to with greater efficiency and accessibility. For example, the new spaces have individual offices to review privacy protection cases to provide the best possible care when our compatriots request the support of the Mexican government. Similarly, the new consulate is equipped to implement health and financial windows and even a lactation room.
The consular representation serves more than 300 thousand compatriots in South Florida. Our community includes a significant force of temporary agricultural migrants, essential to the economy of this state and to the food security of the United States. The opening of the new headquarters also endorses our commitment to protect Mexicans at all times, especially in view of the upcoming entry into force of the SB1718 law.
In that sense, last week, Vanessa Bald, general director of Consular Protection and Strategic Planning, made a working visit to the state of Florida to hold strategic meetings with representatives of the community, civil associations, human rights organizations, lawyers and local authorities. In the company of the protection teams from the Mexican consulates in Florida, information sessions on SB1718 were held in Miami, Homestead, Immokalee, Jupiter, Orlando, Baker, Jacksonville and Pearson, to share specific recommendations on the rights of our community, especially on consular notification, as well as analysis that lawyers, authorities and organizations have carried out on the law.
The relocation of the consulate general to Miami follows the opening of the consulate in Oklahoma, the modernization of the consulate general in Houston, and the upcoming opening of the consulate in New Brunswick, New Jersey, among other important steps in the historic transformation that our country has undergone. consular network during this six-year term. This evolution is not only characterized by more and better consulates, but also by advances in the consular processes and procedures available.
The MiConsulado platform has been consolidated to facilitate the attention of people who seek to go to a consular representation. As we recently announced, we expanded the Center for Information and Attention to Mexicans (CIAM) to also cover Canada and now we serve native languages, such as Nahuatl, Zapotec and Otomi. Of course, we also encourage a closer relationship with our communities through Consular Dialogues, an event that is held to listen to and directly attend to our communities abroad.
Although much remains to be done, progress is palpable and today our consular network is more extensive, modern, and functional for the Mexican community in the United States and Canada.
* Lawyer and teacher in public policy. Head of Unit for North America
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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