The US, Spain and Canada will accept migrants from Latin American centers

The announcement is part of a series of actions by Washington to try to reduce the flow of migrants across its border with Mexico starting May 11, when a law known as Title 42, which accelerates the expulsion of migrants at the border, will be suspended.

In a statement, the Department of State and Homeland Security stressed that these steps would be implemented “in close coordination with regional partners, including the Governments of Mexico, Canada, Spain, Colombia and Guatemala”.

The United States, Spain and Canada will receive migrants who will be sent from processing centers Washington will create to manage migration requests in countries such as Colombia and Guatemala.

At these centers, people will be able to access several legal migration routes, obtain refugee status, family reunification programs, and work permits in the US.

These facilities will be managed in conjunction with “international organizations” and, in these places, migrants who are evaluated will be able to benefit from refugee programs and humanitarian authorizations for family or work in the United States, US government officials said today in a teleconference with journalist .

At the same time, Canada and Spain agreed to accept referred migrants from these centres.

“The United States is making legal migration routes from South and Central America more accessible as an alternative to preventing people from taking dangerous routes,” the official stressed.

This announcement is part of the steps taken by the US ahead of the revocation of Title 42 on May 11. This norm has permitted the expulsion of more than 2.5 million migrants since it was imposed, in 2020, under the pretext of the pandemic under former President Donald Trump (2017-2021).

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