Mexico and US launch plan to tackle Central American migration | Migration News

Most people on the US-Mexico border are Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

The Mexican Foreign Ministry has said that Mexican and US foreign development agencies will work together on a project to address the causes of migration in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

Planting Opportunities Project announced on Wednesday, the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (Amexcid) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will meet and address the three countries known as the Northern Triangle.

It has been driven by migration from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador registration numbers The number of people apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border as asylum seekers tried to enter after fleeing to the U.S. poverty, violence and political instability.

The rise in numbers has put political pressure on US President Joe Biden’s administration, who has accused Republican opponents of causing “chaos” at the border.

During the last fiscal year, some US authorities arrested him 1.7 million people across the border.

The U.S. has become increasingly reluctant to stop the flow of migrants from Mexico, as most people who reach the border return to Mexico. Restriction on the Trump era coronavirus has been established due to the pandemic.

The US is also in talks with the Mexican government to restart a program that would force asylum seekers Waiting for U.S. immigration court trials in Mexico.

Biden and Mexican Left President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador have vowed to confront what they call.root causes”Of migration.

Badute pointed out Poverty, lack of education and employment opportunities, gang violence, political instability and corruption are some of the leading causes of migration, especially among young people.

The new US-Mexico partnership will begin in Honduras in an effort to teach the skills of more than 500,000 young people at risk, the Mexican Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

The department did not provide details about the program or how much funding would be provided for the scheme.

The project will bring together the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation and the United States Agency for International Development [File: Jose Torres/Reuters]

As a presidential candidate, Lopez Obrador expanded social programs aimed at creating better lives for local people Central American countries, which he said would encourage people to leave.

But those plans were scrapped after former US President Donald Trump took office and turned harsh anti-immigration measures into the main focus of his government.

In recent years, Mexico has done just that blocked Several caravans trying to reach the US. He has also sent his National Guard to try to keep people away from the southern and northern borders of the country.