Mexico City authorities are preparing a “pilot plan” to enable migrants who receive a job offer while passing through Mexico City to regularize their stay in the country and at the same time obtain decent employment, far removed from illegality and situations of exploitation.
This was announced by Temístocles Villanueva, Commissioner for Human Mobility for the Mexico City government, who announced that this proposal will be presented to the National Migration Institute (INM) in the “coming days.”
At a press conference, the official noted that a similar project already exists, led by the Partnership for Refugees (Tent) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which allows “people who receive a job offer to regularize their stay in Mexico.”
This is a successful project, but it has had few beneficiaries, he asserted.
“Our interest is to be able to expand it through the mechanisms available to the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion, which are basically two: the Employment Agency and the Job Training Institute,” he said.
He explained that the Job Training Institute can issue certifications that demonstrate to the INM that the person is interested in staying in Mexico City, that they are willing to pursue training, and that, through the Mexico City Employment Agency, they have a job offer they can take.
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“These requirements, which we are developing jointly with the Ministry of Government and the Ministry of Labor, are a proposal for the pilot plan we want to launch in Mexico City, and which we will be presenting to the National Migration Institute in the coming days,” he stated.
Temístocles Villanueva explained that the goal is to strengthen the immigration regularization process in Mexico City, as it currently “represents a bottleneck within COMAR,” as the only route most migrants find is as asylum seekers, which prevents them from accessing decent jobs.
“As long as their status is not regularized in our country, the only thing left for them is informality; and informality is, of course, also associated with labor exploitation,” he concluded.
Source: eluniversal
