The following is an edited transcript of the remarks by María de los Ángeles Huerta del Río, a former congresswoman from Mexico, to the July 31, 2026 EIR Emergency Roundtable, titled “Solve the Immigration Crisis with Development—What You Need To Know About the Strategic Significance of Pope Leo’s Encyclical.” The video is available here.
We are gathered here today by an uncomfortable yet urgent question: Does humanity have the moral fitness to survive? If we assess the answer by examining the institutional architecture of global borders, the conclusion is alarming. We are not facing a crisis of population flows; we are facing a crisis of human decency.
