translated from Spanish: Government active plan to provide work and shelter to migrants

The Secretariat of Labour and Social Welfare (STPS) presented the “Juarez Initiative”, which will provide accommodation and employment to migrants on the country’s northern border.
Horacio Duarte, undersecretary of employment and in charge of the care of migrants of the country’s northern border, detailed that the strategy will be launched in the cities of Tijuana, Mexicali and Ciudad Juárez, where the manufacturing sector will open workspaces for to insert this population work.
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“We have found good echo, especially in the manufacturing sector, where there are a significant number of vacancies that have not been filled. It’s not about displacing Mexican workers, it’s about the great economic potential that the border has, to take advantage of the vacancies to insert them at work,” he said.
The Juarez Initiative will provide shelter, through civil and religious society organizations, “where you will not only find a place to sleep, but also have government instant services such as health, documents, food, among others,” he said, .
According to Duarte Olivares, the financing of these actions will be provided by the federal government, which earmarked a budget item to address the migration phenomenon.
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Mexico’s Chancellor Marcelo Ebrard reported that, so far, they have the support of 16 hostels on the northern border and 3,700 jobs offered by the industry.
Ebrard detailed that as of Monday there are already 327 people working at these companies, while awaiting their hearing as asylum seekers in the United States.
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In the first week of July, the U.S. government sent a thousand 789 Central American migrants to Mexico who are in the process of asylum, according to reports from the newspaper Reforma.
For its part, the National Migration Institute reported that between January 29 and July 7, Donald Trump’s administration sent 18,504 migrants to Mexico.
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Original source in Spanish