Headline Roundup • June 29th, 2019
Mexico Announces Plan to Employ 40,000 Migrants
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has announced a plan to employ 40,000 Central American migrants in factory jobs as they await results from their United States asylum cases.
Mexico has seen an influx of migrants traveling north from Central American countries to the United States. Some say this move by Obrador will aid labor shortages along the Mexican side of the US-Mexico border.
Obrador said he would do more to combat the flow of migrants to the northern border earlier this month after President Donald Trump threatened to impose a five percent tariff on goods exported to the US. Mexico has since continued raiding buses, motels and trains to locate migrants who are heading north.
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Speaking at his daily press conference, Lopez Obrador said he expected an agreement with factories to be signed next week.
“This agreement is going to be signed, there will be no legal problem,” he said. “We are arranging this so that they can be hired without much processing.”
Mexico’s border states have been inundated with migrants who must often wait weeks to seek U.S. asylum under a policy known as “metering,” which limits the number who can apply each day. After requesting asylum, thousands have been sent back to Mexico...
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he has plans to give 40,000 factory jobs to Central American migrants in Mexico.
“This agreement is going to be signed, there will be no legal problem,” he said Friday. “We are arranging this so that they can be hired without much processing.”
Such a deal would provide a solution to some of the tens of thousands of migrants who are seeking asylum in the U.S. but have been sent back into Mexico as they await court dates on their asylum claims.
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says his country’s “maquila” assembly plants are offering to give 40,000 jobs to Central American migrants.
Tens of thousands of migrants who hoped to reach the United States are stuck in Mexico. Many have been sent back to await court dates on their U.S. asylum claims.
And Mexico has also stepped up raids on trains, buses and motels, to stop the migrants from moving north.
Lopez Obrador said Friday “we prefer to keep them (migrants) in the south” of Mexico” because...
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