Brenda Cardenas Thomae

Brenda Georgina Cárdenas Thomae (born in 1982) is a Mexican politician and lawyer. She has served as the Congresswoman for Nuevo Laredo District 2 at the Congress of Tamaulipas, associated with the National Action Party (PAN), and as Director of the Tamaulipas Migrants Institute state agency. She also ran as a councilwoman of Nuevo Laredo municipal government.

With a conservative platform she supports issues like border and migration issues, women's issues, children's issues, human rights, family issues, and constitutional issues.

Early life Cárdenas was born in Monclova, Coahuila, in 1982. After completing her high school studies at the Instituto America de Estudios Superiores (IAES) in Nuevo Laredo in 2000, she graduated as a lawyer from the University of Monterrey in 2004 and later earned her master's degree in taxation and international Accounting from the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas in 2010.

She was a professor of civil and constitutional Law at her alma mater, the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas, between 2015 and 2016. where she worked as Legal Coordinator for the municipality, as well as leading the municipal government's welfare program called Social Action and supervised the government's Contracts and Agreements area. Cárdenas' rivals included seasoned politicians like former first lady of Nuevo Laredo Elsa Tamez Villarreal.

On June 5, 2016, Cárdenas won the election, obtaining more than half of the votes. State-wide, she was the candidate to have received the biggest percentage of votes of all of Tamaulipas candidates for state congress. With Cárdenas' victory, the PAN kept this congressional seat, the wealthiest in the Nuevo Laredo Municipality and one of the wealthiest in Tamaulipas and Mexico. +2016 Election for Tamaulipas Congress District 02 seat in Nuevo Laredo as congresswoman of District 2, which represents Eastern and Southern Municipality of Nuevo Laredo. where the reform to the Tamaulipas Congress internal organization and operation in order make the legislative process faster and professionalized.

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Political positions Cárdenas has dedicated her legislative work to protect women, women's health access, legislate against gender-based political violence, strengthening justice, reform on private sector contracts with government, youth, children, She is also an advocate in aiding migrants, who transit through her city of Nuevo Laredo daily. also dedicated her political work to the betterment of the legislative processes in her state. People living in poverty, disabled persons, and migrants benefited from her non-official help.

Even though her political party aligns with right-wing conservative ideals, she has only openly talked about her ideals as to protect the youth and families, while also being a fighter for women's human rights. leading efforts to help migrants who were deported by the United States to Nuevo Laredo. During her administration she faced the rise of deportees made by the US government to Nuevo Laredo, where she helped people reach their families as well as channeling them to the different churches and organizations that house and feed migrants.

When the COVID-19 pandemic reached the US-Mexico border, Cardenas was at the forefront of protecting migrants and deported people from the virus. pointing there is a lack of specific enduring laws that benefited Nuevo Laredo, and arguing a case for nepotism for her relatives.

As Director of the Migrant Institute of Tamaulipas Her adversaries also point out that international organisms decided to no longer support the Migrant Institute of Tamaulipas while Cardenas was director of the institute.