Mexico to Invest Billions in Plan That Will Curb Migration to U.S.
By Townhall. Mexico is spending $30 billion on a development plan that will help boost its southern region’s economy as a way to curb migration to the United States.
Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said at a UN-backed conference that the policy would slow migration better than “containment measures.”
Better than containment measures? Mexico's Foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard said that the investment would accompany a broad policy shift to stem migration https://t.co/oKQbztBuMI
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Mexico Will InvesT $30 Billion in Development Plan to Curb Migration
By Mexico News Daily. The federal government will invest more than US $30 billion over the next five years on a Comprehensive Development Plan with Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador aimed at curbing migration to the United States, the foreign secretary said yesterday.
Speaking at a United Nations (UN) migration conference in Marrakech, Morocco, Marcelo Ebrard said that Mexico has made a commitment to cooperate closely with Central American countries and expressed confidence that the plan would be feasible and effective.
Ebrard said he expected that the plan, which will seek to develop Mexico’s poor southern states, would curb migration better than “containment measures.”However, he didn’t explain exactly how the US $30 billion investment will be used or where the money would come from.
Thousands of Central American migrants have traveled through Mexico as part of several caravans during the past two months, leaving the authorities of the past and current federal government to grapple with finding a way to stem migration under increasing pressure to do so from the United States government.(Read more from “Mexico Will Invest $30 Billion in Development Plan to Curb Migration” HERE)
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