Cleaning services, loading and unloading in warehouses and assistants in restaurants are some of the jobs that the state authorities of Sonora, Mexico have offered to migrants who have arrived in their territory. Among them are a group of 13 Cuban migrants who arrived in the state capital on Tuesday border with the United States. “This starts in January and they say they are going to pay an average of $ 200 a month,” he explains to 14ymedio Ernesto.
“The person in charge of giving me the visa told me that they had work at the border. Of those who arrived in the trucks, they pointed to five. The rest received the card and left,” says the 23-year-old, originally from Sancti Spíritus. “The woman insisted a lot, that it was better not to risk crossing the border illegally, because they could return me to Cuba.”
The five Cubans were transferred along with 214 other migrants from El Salvador, Haiti and Guatemala to Sonoyta, a community settled in the municipality of General Plutarco Elías Calles, northwest of Sonora, where they will remain in a shelter until their hiring is formalized.
In recent days a humanitarian visa to 27 Cubans, according to a source from the National Institute of Migration consulted by 14ymedio, which added that the Mexican government is looking for alternatives for migrants. Convincing local companies and consortia to open sources of employment helps contain the flow of migrants to the United States and fulfills Joe Biden’s request, he said.
The five Cubans were transferred along with 214 other migrants from El Salvador, Haiti and Guatemala to Sonoyta, a community settled in the municipality of General Plutarco Elías Calles.
In addition, “expenses are saved”, such as food provided in shelters. “More than $ 37,000 a day was paid to a company for providing food to the immigration assistance centers,” the source stressed.
Among the companies that have offered employment to migrants with a humanitarian visa is the Mexican Economic Development (Femsa). On December 22, he unveiled the opening of spaces a from Haiti in its chain of stores, known as OXXO. It was not specified whether the project would also include Cubans, Venezuelans, Brazilians and Russians.
In the Mexican state of Baja California, also on the border with the United States, personnel from the Ministry of Labor made visits to shelters on Monday and offered the migrants employment in different companies. The local government reported the hiring of 388 migrants. “90% have their immigration status ready to continue with the procedures and be in a position to be hired,” the agency reported to the portal Forward Valley.
In the municipality of Tapachula, Chiapas state, the INM accelerated in the last hours the delivery of transfer permits, which now have a QR code, to migrants of different nationalities who remained in the town. Once the document is delivered, they will have 30 days to travel to the destination where their appointment with the immigration institute will be scheduled.
The authorities intend that some 1,000 Latin American migrants and another 700 from Haiti can leave before the New Year’s festivities with their official documents and can leave the city paying their tickets with their own resources, reported the EFE agency.
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