President of the Government of Spain, pedro sanchez assured this Friday that his executive was working to determine how many Latin American migrants would be welcomed under the deal announced with America A figure he explained would depend on labor needs.
Sanchez mentioned the deal, which advanced last month, to reporters after a meeting in his presence white House with the US President Joe Biden and in which both commented on the relevance of cooperation in this area.
spain, America why Canada Announced an agreement to welcome Latin American immigrants who normally immigrate to the United States and whose applications will now be processed in centers the US plans to build soon in Colombia and Guatemala.
Neither Madrid nor Washington have so far specified whether the number of migrants headed to Spain has been specified, and Sanchez insisted that was yet to be determined.
“We cannot establish the number of migrants who will reach us through these new mechanisms of the resettlement program because it will depend on the labor needs that we have in Spain,” he explained.
But it added that both the interior minister, Fernando Grande-Marlasca, and Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá, are already working to figure out the number of migrants with refugee status who could go to Spain.
Spain already has circular migration agreements with several Latin American countries (Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Colombia,). Honduras and Guatemala) to allow citizens of those countries to visit work temporarily in spain To meet the needs of the private sector, which communicates to the Spanish government what its labor needs are.
According to Spanish government sources, between 2,000 and 3,000 temporary workers enter the country each year, and this number could increase with an agreement with the United States.
The meeting between Sanchez and Biden was held after the so-called title 42, which allowed immigrants entering the United States to be automatically deported to Mexico without an opportunity to request asylum and on the grounds that isolating the country was necessary because of the pandemic.
