The Biden administration announced at the Summit that it plans to dole out $314 million in humanitarian aid, as well as provide billions in funds from existing development banks to help promote new programs to accept migrants and refugees in countries like Ecuador and Costa Rica.
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, together with 19 other leaders of the region presented this Friday a roadmap for the countries that receive a large number of migrants and refugees, in order to expand legal channels and provide new funds, as well as helping countries to host them.
“No single nation should assume the responsibility of managing a historic increase in migration throughout the Western Hemisphere,” said the US president, in relation to the “Los Angeles Declaration”, perhaps the greatest achievement of the IX Summit of the Americas.
Principles announced on the final day of the continental event include humane border management and coordinated emergency responses, according to a senior US official who briefed reporters ahead of the official announcement.
“Each of us is signing commitments that recognize the challenges that we all share and the responsibility that impacts all our nations,” Biden said at a podium with the flags of the 20 countries that sealed the agreement from Chile, in the south of the continent. , to Canada, in the north. “This is just a start,” as he expressed his hope that more nations will join. “There’s a lot more work left.”
The signatories of the agreement included Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, four countries that expressed their disagreement with the exclusion of nations such as Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, because their governments are considered anti-democratic.
In the case of Mexico, considered a key actor in the region, it has promised to launch a temporary work program for 15,000 to 20,000 workers from Guatemala. In the medium term, the country will expand eligibility to include Honduras and El Salvador.
For its part, the Costa Rican government will extend protections for Cubans, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who arrived in its territory before March 2020.
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Similarly, the Biden administration plans to dole out $314 million in humanitarian aid, financed by the United States Agency for International Development and the Department of State (USAID), as well as provide billions in funds from existing development banks to help promote new programs to accept migrants and refugees in countries like Ecuador and Costa Rica. Meanwhile, Belize will regularize Central American and Caribbean migrants.
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