The deal, the central achievement of the US Summit in California, commits Canada to spending $ 26.9 million this year to slow the flow of immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean. The Los Angeles Declaration on Immigration and Protection also includes a Canadian promise to welcome an additional 4,000 migrants from the region by 2028, as well as a pre-existing plan to attract 50,000 more farm workers from Mexico, Guatemala and the Caribbean. Canada is already a beacon of hope for immigrants from around the world, Trinto said during the final press conference when asked why a G7 country accepts so few extra new entrants. The simple admission of more and more people does not address the underlying issues of economic, social and governmental instability that force people to pack their things and leave from the beginning, he said. “It is not enough to just say, ‘We will continue to accept people.’ “We have to do it, and we will do it, because this is the country we are in,” Trinto said. “But we must also make deliberate, targeted efforts to ensure that people do not feel compelled, that the only option they have is to put themselves and their families at enormous risk in order to leave their communities in their country.” .
Progressive initiatives
To that end, the government has announced an additional $ 118 million for progressive initiatives aimed at improving the lives of people already living in Latin America and the Caribbean. That includes $ 67.9 million to promote gender equality. $ 31.5 million in health and pandemic spending. $ 17.3 million for democratic governance and $ 1.6 million for digital access and anti-misinformation measures. “Each of us signs commitments and recognizes the challenges we all share and the responsibilities that affect all of our nations,” Biden said earlier in the day as the other 19 leaders at the summit stood on stage behind him. He blamed growing immigration pressure on the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, and what he called the “upheaval” caused by totalitarian regimes in the region. CLOCKS The Prime Minister signs an agreement on climate:
Trinto meets with Biden, Governor of California at the US Summit
Prime Minister Justin Trinto spoke with US President Joe Biden and signed a new climate agreement with California Gov. Gavin Newsom at the ninth US Summit in Los Angeles. Colombia, he said, hosts millions of refugees from Venezuela, while 10 percent of Costa Rica’s population is made up of immigrants – a problem he says requires a collective approach to the hemisphere’s health and prosperity. “Our security is linked in ways that I do not think most people in my country fully understand, and perhaps not in your country,” Biden said. “Our common humanity demands that we take care of our neighbors by working together.” The $ 26.9 million portion of Canada’s commitment will be allocated to improving integration and border management, protecting immigrants’ rights, gender equality measures and tackling human trafficking.
4 main pillars
The Los Angeles statement is based on four key pillars, Biden said: stability and assistance to communities, broader legal migration routes, humane immigration management and a coordinated emergency response. The White House said it was seeking to “mobilize the entire region around bold steps that will transform our approach to managing immigration to America.” It includes commitments from a number of Latin American and Caribbean countries on everything from economic stabilization and humanitarian aid to the “legalization” of migrants living illegally in host countries. Colombia, for example, has already legalized 1.2 million immigrants and refugees from Venezuela and agreed to do the same for another 1.5 million by the end of the summer. Unsurprisingly, the US is making the biggest raise, including $ 25 million to support countries implementing new legalization programs, $ 314 million to stabilize efforts, and a $ 65 million pilot program to support agricultural workers. . The Biden administration is also committed to resettling 20,000 refugees from the United States over the next two years, three times the current rate of resettlement, the White House said. Along with funding and resettlement efforts, the United States plans to crack down on human trafficking, including a new “unprecedented” campaign to stop and dismantle criminal smuggling operations in Latin America.
