{"id":3404,"date":"2021-01-08T14:46:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T22:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2021-02-05T10:03:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T18:03:30","slug":"covid-19-government-of-mexico-promises-vaccination-for-undocumented-immigrants-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/covid-19-government-of-mexico-promises-vaccination-for-undocumented-immigrants-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Mexican government promises vaccination to undocumented migrants in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/tgh-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/tgh-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/tgh-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/tgh-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/tgh-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/tgh-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/tgh-780x520.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cristian Carlos. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent days, statements made by Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts, who threatened to exclude undocumented migrants from receiving either of the two vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna - against COVID-19, have caused a stir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a press conference, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador issued instructions for the foreign ministry to launch a request to reverse the statements made by Ricketts through the consulate in Nebraska, in charge of Guadalupe Sanchez, where a warning is made to correct and include undocumented migrants to receive the COVID-19 vaccine that is already available in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ca\" dir=\"ltr\">Letter from our consul to the governor of Nebraska.<br><br>Letter from our consul to the governor of Nebraska. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gNt8GvIpK5\">pic.twitter.com\/gNt8GvIpK5<\/a><\/p>- Roberto Velasco \u00c1lvarez (@r_velascoa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/r_velascoa\/status\/1347227588553531393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 7, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\"It was very worrying to hear their statements (...) that undocumented workers in meat packing plants could not receive the vaccine,\" said Guadalupe Sanchez, consul in Nebraska through a statement issued by the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It is important to point out that in Mexico, simply by being present in Mexican territory, one obtains the right to receive medical attention, which also implies the right to register in the national vaccination program that, since December, includes the new Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as in the state of California, Nebraska, more than 60 percent of the meat production chain are undocumented migrants; however, the percentage rises to 70 of the total number of essential workers in Nebraska, said Maki Teramoto, general director of Protection for Mexicans Abroad of the SRE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador announced that if the U.S. local government denied the application of the COVID-19 vaccine, he would begin a vaccination plan for Mexicans abroad, specifically in the case of the United States. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristian Carlos. Pen\u00ednsula 360 Press [P360P]. En los \u00faltimos d\u00edas, han causado revuelo las declaraciones hechas por el gobernador del estado de Nebraska, Pete Ricketts, quien amenaz\u00f3 con excluir a migrantes indocumentados de recibir alguna de las dos vacunas \u2013la de Pfizer-BioNTech y Moderna\u2013 contra COVID-19. En conferencia de prensa, el presidente de M\u00e9xico, Andr\u00e9s [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170,118],"tags":[273],"class_list":{"0":"post-3404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-covid19","8":"category-migracion","9":"tag-ccj"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3407,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions\/3407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}