Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum walks into the National Palace this Tuesday, Sept. 1, to deliver her second annual account to Congress, a constitutionally required checkup on her administration that arrives this year with extra fanfare: 14 short explainer videos, a three-part documentary, and a follow-up tour built to touch all 32 Mexican states. For the roughly 40 million people of Mexican descent living in the United States, the sections buried inside that report — on border crossings, remittance protections, and how Washington's banking rules touch migrant families — are the parts most likely to echo back home, from Houston's sprawling Mexican-American community to the growing Mexican presence inside South Florida's broader Venezuelan and Colombian diaspora hubs.
Sheinbaum set aside her usual weekend travel to stay inside the National Palace, telling reporters at her briefing that she had no public appearances planned because she was still polishing the report ahead of Tuesday's presentation, per Infobae. The timing isn't accidental: Sept. 1 also marks the day Mexico's Congress gavels in its new ordinary legislative session, and the written document goes formally to the Permanent Commission under Article 69 of the constitution — a submission built from a review of 19 federal secretariats and cabinet agencies conducted through August, according to Maya Comunicación.
