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The Unit­ed States should reopen itself to migra­tion, amnesties, refugee inflows, asy­lum seek­ers, and more tem­po­rary con­tract work­ers, Mexico’s ambas­sador to the Unit­ed States said Tuesday.

The U.S. immi­gra­tion sys­tem “has to be based on facts and real­i­ties,” Ambas­sador Martha Bárce­na Coqui told a forum arranged by the Nation­al Immi­gra­tion Forum (NIF). She con­tin­ued: ‘The facts and real­i­ties is the need to pro­tect the most vul­ner­a­ble, the need to keep open the gen­eros­i­ty towards refugees, the need to rec­og­nize the com­ple­men­tar­i­ty of labor mar­kets and demo­graph­ic pro­files, the need for tem­po­rary work­ers in the Unit­ed States.”