A proposal sent to the state Congress seeks to respect the human rights of all migrants passing through Jalisco.
Twenty-six year-old independent legislator Pedro Kumamoto and the civil organization FM4 Paso Libre are behind the initiative, which aims to offer undocumented migrants the right to make complaints to the police without fear of deportation.
Kumamoto announced that the proposed reform would be known as the “Hospitality Law,” and could also offer migrants full access to services such as education and healthcare.
“We have to create a form of politics that declares that the suffering of others is not alien to our own, but is our suffering too,” Kumamoto declared, before making a veiled reference to the campaign of Republican hopeful Donald Trump. “We are in no position to criticize the intolerance of certain individuals in the United States when we ourselves also discriminate.”