Mexico’s Sheinbaum counters Trump deportations with tens of thousands of jobs for returned citizens
(www.latintimes.com)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 11:32
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from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 11:32
https://lemmy.world/post/28472847
Summary
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum launched the “México te abraza” employment program to help citizens deported under Donald Trump reintegrate into the workforce.
In partnership with the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial, over 220 companies have posted 63,880 vacancies nationwide, surpassing a January pledge to create 50,000 jobs.
Roles span sectors like agriculture and construction, with salaries ranging from $424 to over $2,000 USD monthly. Key employers include Walmart, Grupo Bimbo, and CEMEX.
The initiative aims to provide “dignified, well-paying work” and leverage U.S. labor experience for Mexico’s economic benefit.
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I’m horrified by what my government is doing right now, but if one of the side effects is that Mexico experiences an economic renaissance as a result of our idiotic racially-motivated isolationism… well, that is genuinely one hell of a silver lining.
Yeah, I’m with you. This is going to suck for the Americans who fought against the rise of fascism, but it is good for the rest of the world that we’re not at the helm anymore.
Excellent points here. Thank you for sharing.
I’m wondering if it might suck - possibly harder - for those who voted for fascism.
Oh, most definitely in a general sense. The difference here is that they’re believers.
They’re willing to go through pain, agony, and the death of themselves or their loved ones, if they feel like they’re in the “moral right” here with their religion.
Religion (the Abrahamic ones especially) are largely based on fascism at its core. After all, why would you question God? Why would a woman question the man of the house? Why would you question the Pope? Etc.
So, objectively, things will get very bad for them, but they will weather it better than those that are fighting fascists.
Agreed.
And the Democrats can sit, watch, and learn what it means to be electable while it happens.
The DNC? Learn?
Lol
This is already backfiring among us mexicans, people are angry because she and her party have scared away jobs with their law breaking policies, negligence and nepotism, so magically now she swears to create jobs for those who left the country… What about the rest of the country?
Besides she can say whatever she wants, until those jobs are created and turn out to actually be decent ones, this is just populism.
Yeah, I swear people on Lemmy love Sheinbaum, but they are not Mexican, so of course they don’t know the whole picture.
And they don’t care, they love their populists who claim to be leftists and will keep posting their propaganda.
It’s no different from reading propaganda in Reddit and everyone clapping as if it were true.
Says the person who has only responded to actual data with propaganda
If we’re doing anecdotes, the Mexican side of my family loves Sheinbaum too and are not in Lemmy (+1 friend and her boyfriend as well)
Has unemployment risen? I looked at some numbers and it looks really low over the last few years. Not a Mexican.
Your own statistic says unemployement has risen and if you go back a few years you’d notice it took a FUCKING HUGE nosedive around the 2020 (covid and the expresident began his crusade against our rights and independent institutions… which she consolidated), and we haven’t really recovered from that… so I don’t know what else to tell you, the official numbers are still like that… but I would not trust them in a short future because they are doing everything to mask the whole shitshow they are doing.
I can tell…
That graph shows unemployment at its lowest level in 10 years.
How about instead of being rude and condescending, you try to explain to us how unemployment is so bad yet apparently at its lowest level in a long time.
I’m not seeing anything in that article that indicates these jobs have to be for people who are returning to the country. They seem to be open for anybody. So if you want one of them go get one. Also I point out that these people are citizens so what are you mad about exactly?
And that’s the problem with the articles posted on Lemmy, the plan quoted (México te abraza) on the “news” is talking about the bribes/handouts that her party has implemented to keep people voting for them because she gives us free money, so she says that will give the deported people a security net if they are deported… which is fucking bullshit.
The rest about the jobs created… I don’t doubt they had open those jobs, the question is if they are actually open for the public or just more nepotism, specially if you look at the list of the companies (FEMSA, Walmart, Grupo Carso, Coppel, Lala, Bayer, Grupo Bimbo, and CEMEX), you immediatly should know they are going to be explotative af unless you got lucky or someone inside who can put you in a decent place.
Oh I’m mad because you decided to ignore the rest of the comment, she and her party have drove away investment and forced small/medium business to close due to the violence that goes unpunished, the total ammount of available jobs hasn’t really recovered since her boss was the president, but the informal work has rosen up like crazy (specially because the IMSS [the free healthcare thing] is lacking medicine, inputs and vaccines, so it doesn’t matter if you manage to get in, there’s nothing they can do unless you pay for things yourself or go somewhere else; so people preffer to go informmal and not pay taxes because it doesn’t help them anyway).
I’m mad because just openning jobs isn’t enough, if I’m going to pay half my paycheck (or more) in dressing up and trasportation alone and the rest is going to be precariously managed to last for a month, then I might as well just join OF or something that actually gives me money to be happy (which is actually my situation right now, I’ve been seriously considering openning an OF or just killing myself).
Me and the very few people that care are mad, not because the deported ones might get a mediocre job to stay alive (if anything I’m worried about them because most ran away due to the violence or because it was either they leave or they starve), we are mad because why wait until now? Why not try and fix things for everyone before? Why try to point out so much that she cares about the deported citizens? Why not actually do things that benefit their own citizens that (for whatever reason) can’t move (legally or illegally) to the USA? That way it wouldn’t matter if people got deported as they would actually have a REAL safety net back here.
While I appreciate the sentiment and perhaps you’re right about meaningless populism… but from up here it really looks like she wants to take advantage of our bout of insanity to goose your economy, to reduce the reasons for people leaving in the first place, to build a more independent local economy in place of the more precarious global one.
Think of all the insane drivel drooling out the side of the mouth of mango Mussolini - somehow his strategy is “1. Wreck it; 2. ???; 3. Profit”, whereas this looks like “build it and they will come”.