The Biden administration recently issued a statement to introduce a new "Legal Pathways Initiative with Mexico" allowing nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who made it to Mexico to be admitted into the United States as refugees.
The statement on the legal pathways initiative underlined the Biden administration's full support "For an international multipurpose space that the Government of Mexico plans to establish in southern Mexico to offer new refugee and labor options for the most vulnerable people who are currently in Mexico", while committing to accept refugee resettlement referrals from qualified individuals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who are there.
If Mexico agreed to give refugee status and employment opportunities to vulnerable individuals on its soil, why the need for resettlement in the United States? Could it be a case of "Burden sharing" and "Family reunification", rather than persecution? The Mexican government decided to set up a service center on its border with Guatemala to offer jobs and resettlement options for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela in line with its commitment made on June 10, 2022, under the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection: Mexico will integrate 20,000 recognized refugees into the Mexican labor market over the next three years.
Under the "Welcome Corps", a new private sponsorship program designed by the Biden administration to resettle refugees, private individuals in the United States will be able to choose which refugees will get a chance to join them here.
"U.S.-based supporters" for these parole programs are not only U.S. nationals, citizens, or lawful permanent residents; other individuals lawfully present in the United States can also act as sponsors, such as asylees, refugees, and parolees; Temporary Protected Status holders; and beneficiaries of deferred action or Deferred Enforced Departure.
In accordance with this New York Declaration, member states agreed to: consider the expansion of existing humanitarian admission programmes, flexible arrangements to assist family reunification, private sponsorship for individual refugees and opportunities for labour mobility for refugees, including through private sector partnerships, and for education, such as scholarships and student visas.
Two separate UN compacts were set in motion following the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants: the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees.
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