The document explains that it would pay “long distance transportation” costs for 158,700 migrants and refugees who need to move within a country from “isolated and/or border areas” to other border crossings or areas where they can access “healthcare and protection, and to institutions to regularize their situation and/or access documentation” so that they may “continue transiting to where they can safely access a third country regularly”.
“These activities will promote safe, dignified and informed movements that mitigate protection risks on the roads and in the provision of goods and services,” the document states.
The document calls for another $130 million to help shelter 586,500 people in the 17-nation region. “Cash transfer programs” will pay, in part, for “immediate emergency shelter needs of refugees and migrants along the borders and in isolated areas.”
What kind of shelters?
Collective ones, but also hotel and hostel rooms for, among others, “thousands of refugees and migrants in-transit towards the U.S.” Other monies will support rent and utility payments.
Other monies will fund lawyers and legal services to help traveling immigrants access “protection”, meaning asylum or humanitarian parole offered by the United States. “CVA interventions will cover the costs related to accessing legal documentation or regularization services” in Mexico, for instance, evidently for the legal trainings and services that are going to “support refugees and migrants in accessing asylum and migratory regularization pathways”.
