Jobs in Mexico replace American dream for some caravan migrants

Times of Oman ^ | December 1, 2018 | AFP

[conservative98]

Tijuana(Mexico): Stranded on the US-Mexican border with little hope of entering the United States, thousands of people from a migrant caravan are letting go of their American dream and settling on a Mexican one.

Under a work programme set up by the Mexican government, 2,250 migrants in the northern border city of Tijuana -- out of the roughly 6,000 who trekked here in the caravan from Central America -- have signed up to get jobs, visas and social security benefits in Mexico.

The programme is designed to induce them to stay here, rather than press on to the United States, where wages are higher but where President Donald Trump has made his hostility toward the migrant “invasion” plain.

But it is a long process: just 15 migrants have actually been employed so far.

Denny Guevara, a 26-year-old Honduran man, is one of them.

“It turns out this was my destiny,” he says, smiling ear to ear as he carefully arranges bottles of honey on the shelves of a Tijuana supermarket, the Smart & Final.

[BunnySlippers]

Wow! That is powerful!!!

[Eleutheria5]

Now they won’t have to learn English...oh, never mind.

[DaveA37]

“smiling ear to ear as he carefully arranges bottles of honey on the shelves of a Tijuana supermarket”....

With a few bucks in his pocket PLUS a Mexican visa, it will give him time to make a new plan to walk right across the border into the U.S. where he will disappear into America, maybe show up in Chicago someplace.

[shanover]

I call BS. This is not the norm and will not make American leftists happy.

[dsrtsage]

Gardners in Mexico have to come from somewhere

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Work there until they can get across the border on their own one way or another - some have admitted on camera that is their plan. It's better to be able to pay their way in the meantime instead of living in dangerous squalor with the dead-end invaders.

 

In other news, have heard that the invaders are at odds about who does what and how and are breaking into factions.

 

It's dead, Jim.

 

 

[from occupied ga]

Since their “American dream” was to invade this country and immediately start sucking welfare from the hard working overburdened taxpayers of the USA. I’d say a job is going to be quite a let down for them.

[TheZMan]

They’ll get jobs.
They’ll work for a few days, maybe a few weeks.
Then we’ll get complacent.
They’ll sneak over the border.
You’ll buy their meat and potatoes.

[Elsie]

Doing the jobs that Mexicans won't do.

[Bogie]

Yeah, It’s the answer. We need to get that logic out there because it is being countered by a corrupt propaganda machine.

[BunnySlippers]

Well, what I got out of your video was the STAGGERING scope of the problem.

[Bogie]

Absolutely!

[libh8er]

Mexico is the most natural place for them to migrate to. Familiar language, familiar culture, familiar people and more economic opportunities than in their own countries. But as they are already learning, even Mexican welcome will have its limit.