Governor Juan Manuel Oliva Ramirez held a meeting in Chicago on Friday January 2nd 2009 to discuss issues and projects for the upcoming year. Representatives of Casa Guanajuato chapters from Illinois met at Mi Tierra Restaurant in Little Village, Chicago to discuss the Governors requests. When the Governor entered the room he greeted everyone personally, wished them a happy new year, and thanked them for attending the meeting.
Gov Oliva Ramirez began the meeting by proposing that we expand on the already established Casa Guanajuato’s and other organized groups helping those from Guanajuato to support a project called La Casa Del Inmigrante. This new project would help people from Guanajuato get legal documents like birth certificates and marriage certificates from Guanajuato without having to go to Mexico to obtain them.
According to the Governor, finances have been approved for the project and are ready to be disbursed as soon as of 15th of January. He was hoping to get one of these new “Casas” established in Chicago with the hopes of opening more in Los Angeles CA and Dallas TX. The Governor thought that with so many people from Guanajuato living in the United States, it is important that their needs from their state in Mexico are being met even if they are living abroad.
The Governor went on to say that it was important that the people in groups who help those from Guanajuato unite and work together instead of on their own. The Governor said that if organized groups united, more could get accomplished for the people that they are serving.