What Is Fuerza Migrante?

Fuerza Migrante is a binational platform for coordination and community capacity-building. Its members are Mexicans and other Latinos living abroad, together with their families and home communities in Mexico.

Fuerza Migrante was founded in 2016 out of a shared realization: the Mexican community abroad has an enormous capacity to organize. That capacity shows in thousands of organizations, leaders, and community efforts working every day on health, education, culture, social integration, rights, and local development. This work has been built from the ground up, at the local and community level, with a deep sense of social purpose and a strong commitment to the common good.

Our role is to help align agendas, open spaces for dialogue and collaboration, drive professionalization, digitalization, and the strategic use of technology, and create the conditions for community efforts to grow their impact and sustainability on both sides of the border.

We believe in a model of shared responsibility: the community organizes, organizations grow stronger, institutions lend support, and governments find legitimate, coordinated partners to build solutions together.

Our Mission

To build a strong binational coordination platform (Mexico–United States) that allows community organizations and community leaders to work together, share capacity, strengthen their structures, and contribute to the social, economic, and community empowerment of immigrants and their families.

Education, social innovation, technology, and institutional cooperation are the main ways we get there.

Our Vision

A binational Mexican community that is organized, connected, and shares responsibility: able to drive high-impact social projects, engage constructively with public and private institutions, and take an active part in the development of both countries.

We envision a community that recognizes its collective worth, builds its organizational capacity, and takes its place as a meaningful social force today and in the future.

Who Makes Up Fuerza Migrante?

Fuerza Migrante is an open and inclusive platform made up of:

Community organizations
Civil society organizations
Community leaders and activists
Business owners
Professionals
Hometown associations and federations
Latino and Hispanic organizations
Educational institutions
Public institutions
Cultural and sports organizations
Volunteers and engaged community members

How We Work

Fuerza Migrante organizes its work through issue commissions, which serve as spaces for coordination, dialogue, and building shared agendas:

These commissions are not hierarchical structures. They are flexible ways to collaborate that respect the autonomy of every organization and leader.

Principles of Coordination and Shared Responsibility

Fuerza Migrante's Ten Principles

01
The community comes first
Everything builds on existing community work.
02
Coordination over fragmentation
Working together makes us stronger.
03
Respect for autonomy
Every organization keeps its identity and leadership.
04
Collaboration as a priority
Put partnerships first, in pursuit of the common good.
05
Shared responsibility
Community, institutions, and governments join forces.
06
Growing professionally together
Knowledge is shared.
07
Technology with a social purpose
Go digital to extend our reach in the community.
08
Constructive dialogue
Propose before confronting.
09
Transparency and clarity
In processes, roles, and partnerships.
10
Impact is collective
The credit belongs to the community.

Fuerza Migrante

Our History

2016
The Idea Behind Fuerza Migrante
Fuerza Migrante A.C. is incorporated in Mexico
Grows out of more than 40 years of community work by Jaime Lucero
Core goal: to empower the Mexican community abroad and their families in Mexico
2016–2018
Founding and Institutional Legitimacy
Registered as a National Political Association with the National Electoral Institute
First agreements to promote voter ID registration and voting from abroad
Takes part in forums for young Dreamers
Public debate begins: from participation to full rights
2019–2021
Political Rights and Affirmative-Action Measures
Forums on affirmative-action measures:
New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
Dallas
Mexico
Develops the proposal for representation through a Migrant Deputy seat in Congress.
2020–2021
A Landmark Legal Victory
The Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary:
Restores the Migrant Deputy seat in Mexico City
Orders federal affirmative-action measures
Historic result (2021):
For the first time, Mexico elects migrant legislators at the state and federal levels.
2021
Local Partnerships
Municipalities in Mexico join as partners
Launch of municipal help desks for migrants and their families
2022
An Institutional Leap
Opening of Universidad Fuerza Migrante in Puebla
Agreement with Mexico's Ministry of Economy
Launch of the MÍRAME economic program
2022–2023
Services and Community Platform
Launch of the TodosM help desk
Community support
Legal services
Digitizing programs with Migrantes Unidos en Caravana A.C.
Participation in election observation and partnerships with Mexican states
2023
A Binational Structure
Expansion across Mexico and the United States
The Binational Council takes shape
Issue commissions
Partner organizations
2024
Youth and Democracy
First Binational Young Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C.
Participation in the 2024 elections:
In-person voting at Mexican consulates for the first time
Voting by mail
Online voting
2025
International Consolidation
Opening of the Fuerza Migrante National Office in Washington, D.C.
Participation in:
Mexico Week at Harvard
Public consultations on electoral reform
Legislative forums
Second Binational Young Leaders Summit in Arlington, Texas