Twenty countries adopted a declaration for a migration “neat“Under the principle of a shared responsibility, as requested by Joe Biden, with which they closed a Summit of the Americas mired in controversy.
(See: 60.8% of migrants applied to the PPT between March and April 2022).
“No country should charge alone” with the growing migratory flows, affirmed the American president, Joe Biden, flanked by the other signatories of the Los Angeles Declaration, with the flags of their countries in the background.
The migration “safe” Y “legal“benefits the economic development, but you have to”protect borders“against irregular entry, with”humanity“, he insisted.
The key term for Biden is shared responsibility, because The United States does not want to carry the full weight of the migratory flow. And even less so a few months before the mid-term elections in November, at a time when high inflation is causing the president’s approval to drop among public opinion.
(See: ‘Do not come’: the United States insists on asking migrants not to enter).
It seems to have convinced the Latin American leaders, although in the list of signatories of the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection missing, for example, the Dominican Republic and Bolivia.
Each country contributes its grain of sand. The United States will host 20,000 refugees from Latin America in 2023 and 2024 (three times more than this year) and will disburse $314 million in aid for migrants in the region.
They are far fewer than the 100,000 Ukrainians the United States is set to receive after Russia invaded their country.
Tamara Taraciuk Broner, acting director for the Americas of the NGO Human Rights Watch, sees the alliance as “positive“.
(See: Project seeks to increase resources for migrants).
However, he warns that so that it is not perceived “As an attempt to whitewash, it is essential that the Biden government put an end to its abusive immigration policies and that Latin American governments assume their responsibility for the abuses that migrants and asylum seekers suffer within their borders.“.
Some 7,500 irregular migrants, mostly from Central America, but also of Cuba, Nicaragua Venezuela and Haiti, They try to cross the border with the United States every day, according to official data for the month of April.
Migrants in the United States
Mexico will increase the number of Border Worker Cards from 10,000 to 20,000 and will launch a new temporary work program for between 15,000 and 20,000 people from Guatemala each year, a plan that he hopes to extend to Honduras and El Salvador. Belize, Costa Ricaand even Spain as an observer state, among others.
(See: This is the financial orientation guide for Venezuelan migrants).
However, these initiatives are far from relieving the migrants who flee en masse from the poverty, violence and corruption.
AFP
