Summit of the Americas: an agreement reached on the reception and management of migrants

A portion of the border wall between the United States and Mexico, here in San Ysidro, in the city of San Diego, California.

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The IX Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles ended on Friday with a regional agreement on migration.

What the signatory countries call the Los Angeles Declaration. 

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With our correspondent in Washington

,

Guillaume Naudin

It is a very sensitive subject politically for the United States and

Joe Biden

had made it a priority by opening the summit of heads of state and government.

The idea is to share responsibility for migration management.

Each signatory country will therefore make an effort.

Despite the noted and highlighted absence of

President Lopez-Obrador

at the summit, Mexico will increase from 10,000 to 20,000 the number of people who can benefit from a specific work permit program.

Canada will open its borders to 50,000 agricultural workers.

Belize is going to launch a regularization program for illegal immigrants, while Costa Rica is going to renew a temporary protection program for people from Cuba, Nicaragua, or even Venezuela, from where 6 million people left for escape a terrible economic crisis.

The United States will welcome 20,000 refugees in 2023 and 2024

It is mainly for Venezuelan migrants that the White House will release more than 300 million dollars in humanitarian aid.

The Biden administration will also increase the reception of Haitian refugees, without giving figures.

In total, 20,000 refugees from Latin America will be welcomed into the United States in 2023 and 2024. In 2021, more than 2 million illegal migrant arrests take place at the southern border of the United States.

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