As Fight Rages, Mexico Opens Consulates to Aid Immigrants

Carolyn Hileman* | May 24, 2007

On the surface, there was nothing extraordinary about a certain government office in Little Rock, Ark., the other day as paperwork was signed, names were called, fees were paid, waits were endured and computer keyboards went tap, tap, tap. Just the workaday humdrum of official government business — the government of Mexico, that is, in yet another new consulate, the country’s 47th in the United States. Mexico’s consulates function as a safety net of sorts, issuing passports and identification cards that facilitate banking and offering assistance when Mexican immigrants, an estimated 11 million, run into trouble. Increasingly, they are also acting as influential free agents in a broken immigration system that Congress is trying to overhaul.

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