The whole Fam-damily.. Guess who is going to pay for their medicare, upkeep when they don't go back home?

So true..

https://youtu.be/WgOHOHKBEqE

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by: Shelby Talcott

Since 2017, the U.S. government has been granting tourist visas to elderly Mexicans to visit their undocumented children currently residing in the United States, according to the Washington Post.

The program, dubbed “Palomas Mensajeras Michoacan,” isn’t officially endorsed by the U.S. government, according to a statement given to WaPo. However, it has officials in Michoacan, Mexico, working with the U.S. State Department to reunite families with three-week-long visits to their families across the United States, WaPo reported.

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Officials began having interview days at the U.S. embassy in Mexico City in 2018 for groups of elderly applicants, a State Department spokesperson told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

“These Mexican senior citizens frequently travel in groups to the United States for a variety of reasons including tourism, cultural programs, and to visit friends and family such as U.S. citizen grandchildren,” the statement to TheDCNF said.

The department has also begun to give 10-year, multiple-entry visas to Michoacanos who are 60 years and older that haven’t been in the U.S. illegally.

Those who partake in the program are called “Palomas Mensajeras” (Messenger Pigeons), and the group is always made up of parents and grandparents living in Mexico who haven’t seen their children, currently living undocumented in the U.S., for many years, according to organizers.

There are other places in Mexico that have started similar programs, such as “Heart of Silver” in Zacatecas and “Roots of Puebla” in Puebla, Mexico. Organizers tell those living in the U.S. not to meet their family at the airport, because they could get in trouble if they are asked for identification.

Because of this, those visiting from Mexico put down the names of family members who are legally residing in the U.S. when asked who they are visiting, WaPo reported.

Many of these undocumented immigrants left family members behind in Mexico and haven’t been able to see them because they lack the papers necessary to travel safely between the U.S. and Mexico.