Our mission
Advance and empower migrants’ lives and their communities through education, and implementation of social and economic projects
Our vision
Economic and social equality for migrant communities
Time line
Fuerza Migrante Foundation was established in 2021 by Don Jaime Lucero as the Foundation arm of Fuerza Migrante
Jaime Lucero was born in one of the poorest areas of Mexico. At 18, he made the tough decision to migrate to the USA to find better opportunities, with no money, no documents but with a will to succeed
Today Don Jaime Lucero is a a successful Mexican-born entrepreneur who leads one of the most important women’s clothing companies
He noticed, few years after his arrival to the US, the need to provide support to other migrants like himself, and founds Casa Puebla in NYC in 1970’s, the first of his volunteer-based, not-for-profit ventures
In the early 2000s, Don Jaime starts to see that there were many local Mexican-American organizations in different cities across the country catering to migrants’ needs, but the Mexican diaspora lacked political representation and economic influence both in the USA and Mexico
It is with this thought that Don Jaime founds Fuerza Migrante in 2017, a movement to promote cooperation and support among multiple institutions interested in the social and economic empowerment of migrant communities through education
Today, Fuerza Migrante counts with more than 230 organizations across the US and Mexico impacting more than 2.2 milllion lives
Mexicans remain the largest group of immigrants in the United States
