U.S. to take referrals from Mexico’s new middle for third-country migrants

MEXICO CITY — The U.S. authorities introduced Friday it’ll take referrals of Haitian, Cuban, Venezuelan and Nicaraguan residents from Mexico for doable resettlement as refugees within the United States.

Mexico introduced earlier this week it’ll arrange a service middle providing jobs and resettlement for folks from these 4 international locations. It mentioned the middle shall be on the southern border with Guatemala, however didn’t specify the place or when it might open.

When the U.S. authorities started requiring asylum seekers to use on line or from their house international locations, lots of them had already begun the journey to the U.S. border and wound up caught in Mexico. The Mexican middle is supposed to serve these folks.

U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan mentioned the United States is supporting Mexico’s new middle and can “accept refugee resettlement referrals from qualified individuals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who are already in Mexico.”

He gave no particulars on how the referrals would work or what number of can be accepted.

The U.S. has a brand new coverage to grant parole for 2 years to as much as 30,000 folks a month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela in the event that they apply on-line with a monetary sponsor and arrive at an airport. It was not clear whether or not referrals accepted from Mexico must have a monetary sponsor.

On Wednesday, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department mentioned in a press release that the brand new middle “would provide refugee services, and at the same employment options, to connect migrants with the big projects being built in the south southeast.”

Mexico is constructing a vacationer practice line, a string of business parks, an oil refinery and different tasks within the space.

Mexico additionally has been urgent Washington to assist finance two Mexican packages that it’s searching for to develop to Central America. One pays farmers to plant and take care of bushes and the opposite is a system of youth job coaching and apprenticeships.

Mexico mentioned Wednesday the U.S. has agreed to contribute $40 million to that effort in El Salvador, Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Cuba and Ecuador.