Peninsula 360 Press has joined the initiatives being carried out to change the narrative that exists within the United States about Mexico and immigrants, and is calling on young people and adults to join a group of volunteers who are fighting the misinformation that generates a bad perception of this population group.
This was expressed by journalist Manuel Ortiz during the radio program Península 360 Press with Marcos Gutiérrez de Hecho en California, who said that they are looking for people who want to be part of a communication network that generates information to combat hatred against immigrant communities.
"We seek the empowerment of migrant communities through art and communication, with young people who want to work with us voluntarily.", accurate.
In addition, he said, people who speak English and Spanish, preferably bilingual, and who are familiar with the area of communications, are required and who wish to join this great project on a voluntary basis.
""We will be able to report everything that we migrants contribute and add: in culture, gastronomy, literature, arts: in general, how much we contribute," he added. he is also a photographer.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said during her morning press conference on Tuesday that there will be a special section for her fellow countrymen in the "people's morning press conference" about the importance of the work that her fellow countrymen do, since there are migrant organizations in the United States with which they are getting in touch.
"We are going to have a special section; I think starting next week to talk about the work that our migrant brothers and sisters do in the United States and the importance they have for Mexico and for the United States. And they themselves are going to record capsules to talk about the importance," said Sheinbaum.
She also said it was "important" that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump recognized the "dreamers" who emigrated as children during an interview with NBC on Sunday, in which he said he wants the "dreamers," who are mostly Latinos who benefited from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in the United States, to be able to stay in the country.
Manuel Ortiz said that this initiative is important because it will give Mexicans a space to talk about migrant communities.
"The perception of Mexicans in the United States has been getting worse, much of this is based on false information, on false data that has been disseminated during the campaign, which the general population adopts and disseminates, thus creating ideas based on false information.“, he commented.
This initiative should not be seen as a government matter only, it should be taken as an opportunity for participation and unity for all, added Ortiz, while highlighting that there is solid information that proves that the migrant community in the United States is very important, since it supports in all areas, from cultural to economic.
For example, he said, if the 10 percent tariffs on all U.S. imports were to go into effect, economists McKibbin, Hogan and Nolan of the Peterson Institute for International Economics analyzed what would happen if they were applied, since the GDP of the United States, Mexico and Canada would be affected in the short, medium and long term; in the case of Mexico it would fall between 0.6 percent and 1.2 percent, while that of the United States would decrease between -0.4 percent and -0.9 percent by 2027, affecting both parties.
In the case of mass deportations, the authors of the report estimated the deportation of 1.3 million workers and another with 8.3 million, and in either case the United States is affected, since the most notable impact is on the manufacturing production of durable goods such as mining and agriculture, leaving a loss of GDP of up to seven percent per year and the estimated effect of these deportations on Mexico's GDP would be practically zero.
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