2023-06-06 19:34:51
Through a statement issued by the Colombian Foreign Ministry, it announced that the United States will continue to work jointly with the entity in the country, in order to achieve solutions that allow addressing the irregular migration crisis that Latin America is currently going through. .
To date, one of the greatest advances in resolving matters is the creation of some operation centers that will have the objective of identifying, recording and knowing the reasons for the phenomenon, in order to later generate legal routes that allow the generation of a process of migration from Colombian territory to the United States, without it being necessary for those who decide to undertake this journey to run some kind of danger in the process.
The foregoing, also in order to begin to combat the networks of human trafficking and trafficking in areas such as the Darién and in other land or maritime corridors, which usually claim hundreds of lives a year, or have their human rights violated.
“It is about preventing risks to those who intend to start or continue this irregular migration to the United States or other places like Canada,” points out the communiqué presented by Colombia, along with the United States.
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In addition, as detailed in the document, the so-called Safe Mobility Points are an initiative that is expected to be taken to other countries in the region, and more information will be available in the coming days.
In addition, The letter is emphatic that the model will seek to prioritize those who migrate from countries like Haiti, Cuba and Venezuela, countries with quite deep internal political conflicts, a reason that forces them to migrate through illegal routes, in search of better living conditions. Thus, the centers that are established in countries such as Colombia will be managed jointly by both nations, in order to provide greater speed in the attention to the migratory phenomenon.
On the other hand, the text also mentions the other means in which they say they are working to promote more and more legal migration, so in that order of ideas, the US authorities explain that “The government of the United States of America reaffirms its commitment to simultaneously expand additional legal avenues for Colombians with temporary work visas and extended family reunification,” the statement concluded.
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