Morena Senators Call on Mexican Government to Protect Migrants from Bounty Hunters

ByAndrea Becerril

This article by Andrea Becerril originally appeared in the December 28, 2025 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

Senators from the Morena party deplored the fact that President Donald Trump’s government is further hardening its policy that criminalizes migrants and resorting to questionable methods such as employing bounty hunters, and therefore called for joint work between the federal Executive and the Legislative branches to protect Mexican nationals.

“We must guide our fellow citizens in the face of this new onslaught that violates their human rights,” commented Senator Manuel Huerta Ladrón de Guevara, while his fellow party member, Guadalupe Chavira de la Rosa, considered that support measures should be reinforced, in addition to condemning in international forums this inhumane policy towards those who “with their work have contributed to the development and wealth of the United States.”

“This strategy of hatred against migrants and citizens of the world is deplorable, a strategy employed by a Trump who is increasingly escalating his tactics of violence. We are well aware that he will continue to pay millions of dollars in rewards to those who find and hand over undocumented workers, and for this reason, we must increase protection measures for our fellow citizens in the United States,” commented Huerta Ladrón de Guevara.

He stated that the Senate must take action and assess what parliamentary diplomacy and other measures they should take in response to the decision to use even industrial warehouses to confine 80,000 migrant workers, as this violates international human rights treaties and conventions.

For her part, Chavira de la Rosa considered it “immoral” for the government to commercialize “the detention of undocumented migrants and allow companies to enrich themselves from it,” so it is time, he declared, to recover all diplomatic means to dialogue and show that the United States benefits from the work of migrants, since the economic contribution of Latinos alone reached 1.6 trillion dollars in 2023.

“It is important to emphasize time and again that migrants are not criminals and cannot be treated as if they were. They are workers who came to our northern neighbor in search of a better life; today I am a fundamental support of the American economy,” she stressed.