SALTILLO – On a recent factory shift in the northern Mexican city of Saltillo, Honduran refugee Walter Banegas extracted a steaming-hot piece of moulded metal destined for a street lamp from a die-casting machine.
He was granted refugee status in January and with assistance from a United Nations refugee program, relocated to Saltillo and was paired with a job at Pace Industries, a Michigan-based metal casting manufacturer with plants in the US and Mexico. "I feel at peace here," he said. "It's not necessary to go to the United States. You can also get ahead here, in Mexico."A decade ago, a few hundred people annually received asylum in Mexico. By 2021, the number rose to 27,000, according to Mexico's refugee agency. Mexico is on track this year to approve at least 20,000 asylum cases, with most of the arrivals from Honduras, Haiti, Venezuela, El Salvador and Cuba.
Mexico has more than one million job openings nationwide, according to business association Coparmex, and employers in the tourism, agricultural, transportation, and manufacturing industries often struggle to find workers. US, Mexican and UN officials have called for regional cooperation to help migrants resettle in places such as Mexico, Costa Rica and Colombia, aiming to reduce illegal migration to the US.
Jose Medina Mora, the head of Coparmex, praised the UN programme that helped Banegas, and urged the Mexican government to expand work visa programs so more migrants can be quickly matched with employers.The UN programme helps refugees relocate from southern Mexico, where most complete their asylum process, to cities in central and northern Mexico, providing cash grants and assistance with job placements and accessing day-care, schools and healthcare.
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