President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said his government may provide labor-training programs for migrants to work on infrastructure projects in the southern part of the country.
Even if those migrants are in the process of seeking one of the limited number of slots for travel authorization to the US, they could be trained for jobs such as welding and metal-work, said the president at a press briefing. Public projects such as the Maya Train and the Trans-Oceanic Corridor would benefit from more laborers, he said.
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Mexico needs qualified workers because “it has a lot of public investment and foreign investment, and there is a demand for workers,” said AMLO, as the president is known, who did not provide a timeline for when these centers would be constructed.
Nationals from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Haiti are qualified to apply for the temporary parole program in the US if they have a sponsor and must go through a background check, a process AMLO said they could conduct from Mexico.
