Translated by Alise Rule
Father Alejandro Solalinde says that Mexico's system legal but “immoral” for producing millions of poor people.
“Unfortunately, there are some who have acted and profited at the expense of their own migrant brothers; this has turned Mexico into a cemetery, into a forensic route, in the face of an official and public blindness that doesn't make undocumented immigrants a priority of public policy,” affirmed priest Alejandro Solalinde, recipient of the National Award for Human Rights.The priest, who gave a conference this Thursday before the academic body of the Institute of Social Research of the Autonomous University of Baja California, asked politicians to
“have faith in a God of life who doesn't bless capitalism, banks, nor the most wealthy; in a God that has concern for human beings, and not a Jesus Christ out of a catalogue.”In the same way, he considered migrants a sign that everything is not lost, since in their humanitarian tragedy, “they are telling us there is hope,” and it is as if they had “a chip that points them towards hope.”
In an interview given after the conference, he warned that the presence of undocumented immigrants is a testimony to the fact that
“we are not well, that there is a systemic sickness, that things aren't working,” a system that has been given legal status, despite that “in reality it is immoral, because it is producing millions of poor people.”Earlier in Tijuana, he commented that migration is valuable merchandise for organized crime, and that the governments of Mexico and the United States despise migrants. Later, Solalinde travelled 165 kilometers east, above the Mexican-US border, where he announced that on April 30th he will begin a march in favor of migrants that will go from Calexico, California to Washington, DC.
Monday, Solalinde met with researchers from the College of the Northern Border, where he criticized the lack of attention paid by institutions and society to fellow countrymen that are deported [from the U.S.] to the northern border of Mexico to be delivered “on a silver platter” to the cartels. He also reproached the Catholic Church for not doing enough to help them, neither on their journey north nor when they are deported. Spanish original