the Secretary of Foreign Affairs respond tonight to the governor’s announcement Nebraska, Pete Ricketts, That undocumented workers will not be vaccinated against coronavirus.
“Depriving undocumented essential workers of the Covid-19 it goes against basic human rights, “tweeted Roberto Velasco Alvarez, in charge of directing politics for North America by the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (SRE).
Velasco shared on his account Twitter the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states, in Article 25, that “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of themselves and of their families, including clothing, food, housing and medical care, as well as necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, illness, disability, widowhood, old age or other loss of life in circumstances beyond its control. “
the chancellor Marcelo Ebrard he responded to Velasco’s comment by saying, “I fully subscribe. Mexico does include everyone in its vaccination plan.”
Velasco and Ebrard reacted in this way to statements made by Ricketts on Monday when, in response to a question from reporters about the workers of meat packers who would be entitled to be vaccinated, he said the undocumented are ineligible.
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“You’re supposed to be a legal country resident to be able to work at these plants, so I don’t expect undocumented migrants to be part of the vaccine with this program.”
The Institute for Migration Policy recalled that at least 14% of workers in meat packers Nebraska they are undocumented, while on Twitter the comments underscored how essential these migrants are to the survival of these plants.
Maki Teramoto, director general of Protection for Mexicans Abroad, tweeted that “Mexicans are workers in a core industry in Nebraska, keeping their economy moving and feeding American families. Essential workers must have access. to vaccine # COVID19 and medical care during the pandemic “.
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It included a tweet from AJ +, a news portal that indicated that 66% of workers in the meat industry in Nebraska are undocumented and that 69% of undocumented workers are essential workers.
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