translated from Spanish: AMLO offers 4,000 jobs and Segob streamlines paperwork for migrants

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reported that there are four thousand jobs available on the southern border for those arriving in the national territory in the caravan of Central American migrants heading to the United States.
“Now we have been looking at the migrants, comes a caravan from Honduras and El Salvador, about three thousand, two thousand 500, who want to enter through Tapachula (Chiapas), Tenosique, Tabasco, we have more than four thousand jobs available at the border, hostels, medical care,” he explained.
At his press conference on Friday, the federal representative assured that in the southern region of the country there is an offer of employment for migrants arriving from Central American countries.
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“There is work in our country, that is offered and the same for our connationals, there is way for them to have work, my ideal is full employment, work for all, that work, the right to work is guaranteed,” he said.
Migrants heading to Mexico come with the intention of reaching the northern border of the national territory to enter the United States.
The representative’s job offer is for migrants to remain in the southern region as no transit visas will be granted to travel the country and reach the northern border, as stated by the Secretary of the Interior, Olga Sánchez Cordero.
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Meanwhile, in a statement, Governacion noted that the National Migration Institute (INM), in coordination with the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid (Comar), will carry out the procedures for the regular, orderly and safe entry of the members of the caravan.
“Migrants seeking humanitarian refuge must carry out the appropriate formalities, first before the INM and then before the Comar, for which facilities will be offered and, where appropriate, find work in that area, and commit to remain in the south of the country until their application for refuge is resolved,” he added.
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Original source in Spanish