§1. Request for information on Mexico’s human rights practices
This section requests that the Secretary of State submit to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and House Committee on Foreign Affairs, not later than 30 days after adoption of this resolution and pursuant to section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2304(c)), a statement on Mexico’s human rights practices prepared in collaboration with the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and the Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser. (Section 502B(c) requires the Secretary to report human rights practices of countries proposed for security assistance to specified congressional committees before such assistance is provided.)
The statement must include (1) all available credible information on alleged violations by the Government of Mexico, including arbitrary or unlawful arrest, detention, torture, due process violations, enforced disappearances, killings, trafficking in persons, and treatment of non-Mexican citizens removed to Mexico by the United States; (2) U.S. government steps to promote human rights observance by Mexico, discourage contrary practices, publicly or privately disassociate from them, and assess pre-removal treatment of such individuals (including individualized assessments and assurances of legal status or humane treatment); and (3) other information, including assessments of potential misuse of U.S. security assistance, conditions in Mexican detention centers, compliance with U.S. court orders for returns, protective actions against risks to deportees, relevant U.S.-Mexico agreements or transactions, details on 2025 removals, and assurances sought on deportee treatment.