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The Mexican border warns of the impact if Trump restricts temporary work visas
Activists and migrants warn of the migratory impact on the Mexican border and on the inflation of the United States due to the mass deportations that the future government of Donald Trump could carry out and the possible restrictions on temporary non-agricultural visas that President Joe Biden expanded by more than 64,000.
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced last week this number of additional visas for temporary non-agricultural workers during fiscal year 2025, permits known as H-2B that will be added to the 66,000 that Congress authorizes annually.
The measure addresses the growing demand for labor in sectors such as hospitality, construction, gardening and food processing, among others, which depend on temporary workers to operate during seasonal peaks.
But US media have reported that the program is in danger during the next presidency of Trump, who has warned of using the Army to carry out mass deportations and has announced appointments of officials who wrote the ‘Project 2025’, which proposes to restrict H-2 visas.
This contrasts with the Biden Government, which “is looking for how to resume what happened in the 1940s,” when the United States implemented the Bracero Program to bring temporary Mexican workers, said Emilio Alberto López, professor at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, a state bordering the United States.
“The United States, through a macroeconomic crisis, has quite strong inflation, it will also have very strong challenges, and I almost think it goes like in that sense, giving the possibility of these jobs, but basically temporary,” said the internationalist and migration scholar.
Impacted nationalities
Of the 64,000 additional visas, at least 20,000 will be reserved for workers from the three countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, in addition to Haiti, in an effort to offer legal migration alternatives and reduce irregular flows to the United States.
The remainder will be allocated to other regions of the world, with priority given to employers demonstrating an urgent and specific need.
“The Latin race, from the last country in South America to Mexico, all Mexicans, Central Americans, South Americans, are the ones who are raising the economy to the United States,” Venezuelan Milkar Linares, who is stranded in Ciudad Juárez, bordering the US city of El Paso, Texas, told EFE.
Although there is uncertainty about Trump’s measures and the impact on migrants, Linares thinks that in the end the economic reality will prevail.
“Because it’s hard for an American to move a chair to sit down, open the door to go out and, with all due respect and if they feel offended I’m sorry, but what is in sight doesn’t need glasses,” he said.
Reactions and challenges
Business associations in the United States have applauded Biden’s measure for considering it an important step to ensure the continuity of operations in key sectors.
But Professor López Reyes warned that “these visas have already been criticized by some experts, especially those who work on human trafficking issues, because it is very easy for workers to exploit.”
The US government has promised to implement stricter measures to monitor compliance with labor laws in this program, including more frequent inspections and more severe sanctions for employers who engage in illegal practices.
International
Thirteen cuban military members missing after explosion at arms warehouse
Thirteen members of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) have been reported “missing” following an explosion at an arms and ammunition warehouse in the eastern part of the island, the military institution announced.
“As a result of the explosions at an arms and ammunition warehouse in the Melones community… in the province of Holguín, 730 km east of Havana,” two officers, two non-commissioned officers, and nine soldiers are reported as “missing,” according to a statement from the Ministry of the Armed Forces released by Cuban state television.
The statement specified that “investigations are still ongoing at the site,” which led to the evacuation of more than 1,200 residents from areas near the warehouse of a military unit where “aged ammunition was being classified.”
Neither the official press nor Cuban state television have provided images of the explosions at the military unit, but independent media outlets published photos online showing a massive column of smoke and police officers deployed in the streets of the Melones community.
International
Trump considers declaring National Economic Emergency to justify universal tariffs
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump may be considering declaring a national economic emergency in order to justify implementing a package of universal tariffs on both allied and adversary countries, according to CNN.
The proclamation of these measures would grant the incoming U.S. president the freedom to create a new tariff program using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
This move would give the president the authority to manage imports during a national emergency.
According to the report, Trump has a penchant for this law as it provides broad jurisdiction on how tariffs are implemented without strict requirements to prove they are necessary for national security reasons.
International
Venezuelan opposition candidate Enrique Márquez detained ahead of Maduro’s inauguration
Enrique Márquez, a minority opposition candidate in Venezuela’s July 28 elections, was “arbitrarily detained,” denounced a political coalition he is part of and his wife, who described the action as “kidnapping.”
Since Tuesday night, there has been a wave of reports of detentions, with at least a dozen arrests just over 48 hours before President Nicolás Maduro’s inauguration for a third six-year term, following a controversial reelection.
“We inform that yesterday, 07.01.25, Enrique Márquez was arbitrarily detained,” stated the Popular Democratic Front (FDP).
“He was kidnapped by paramilitary groups who, using force as their law, aim to silence and intimidate those of us who want a better country and have a different vision,” said his wife, Sonia Lugo de Márquez, on the leader’s X account.
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