Armando Vazquez-Ramos: “We have to continue fighting for the dignity of an immigration policy”

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The first migrant senator elected in Mexico refers to Armando Vazquez-Ramos as the Teacher, the Professor.

“I was part of his DACA program and he taught me and hundreds of young people many things,” says Karina Ruiz, speaking about teacher and community leader Armando Vazquez-Ramos.

The professor at California State University-Long Beach founded the California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) in 2010, since then he has promoted the dreamer movement, those young people who arrived undocumented in the United States in their childhood and seek to claim their right to be recognized in the country.

“We have fought a lot, we have had great disappointments, one of them with former President Barack Obama, the greatest deporter in history. Now, a movement started by the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is finally taking shape to fight for the dignity of immigration policy,” says Vazquez-Ramos.

The (CMSC)’s mission is to research, develop, promote, and establish policies and programs between higher educational institutions and cultural organizations that will enhance the teaching, mobility and exchange of faculty, students, and professionals between California and the U.S. with Mexico and other nations in the Western Hemisphere, according to his website.

Vazquez-Ramos has established solid bridges between Mexico and the United States, and his enthusiasm for what will be the new government of President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo fills him with expectations.

“With López Obrador we saw how a barrier was collapsing, with ELLA, as they affectionately call her, a project that will continue to defend Mexico and migrants will be consolidated and stronger. When I met her, I was surprised by the love that people have for her, the simplicity and openness, she welcomes us without problems and spends time talking with us,” he adds.

For Karina Ruiz the feeling is the same.

“We are in a position to defend our migrant community, it is not submission, it is negotiation. “I, as a DACA beneficiary, know the importance of a strong immigration policy,” she says.

The US Representative, Lou Correa, thinks the same.

“We have to continue strengthening these relationships, the president-elect is a woman of convictions and high popularity. The current president López Obrador, I saw with my own eyes, how the people love him and has fought for the people, the president-elect will do the same, stornger,” he says.

But Vazquez Ramos sees that his work is reaching one of its goals.

“We already helped put in place a migrant senator, we need immigration reform and make it right for all these children and young people. There are around a million young people who are victims of this injustice,” says the teacher.

“I call them my pochitos,” says Correa.