The Daily Populous Sunday April 20th, 2025 night edition
Authored by latintimes.com and submitted by Crossstoney

In response to the wave of deportations ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump, the Mexican administration, led by President Claudia Sheinbaum, has launched a national employment program to help reintegrate returning citizens into the local workforce.

In partnership with the country's leading business group, the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial (CCE), the government introduced "México te abraza" ("Mexico embraces you"), an initiative aimed at connecting deported Mexicans with immediate job opportunities.

The CCE announced that over 220 companies have made 63,880 job vacancies available through the Conexión Empresarial Paisano platform, as Mexico's Síntesis Digital reports. These positions are spread across all 32 states in Mexico. Nuevo León leads the country with 9,401 job openings, followed by Mexico City with 7,206 and the State of Mexico with 4,840. Other states, including Jalisco and Guanajuato, also feature prominently in the distribution of vacancies.

The initiative builds on a commitment made in January to provide at least 50,000 jobs to those returning from the United States. "Mexico wants them to know they are welcome and that they can find dignified, well-paying work," said Francisco Cervantes Díaz, president of the CCE, to Síntesis.

The business sector also sees an opportunity to leverage the experience of individuals who worked in the U.S. under stricter labor standards. Companies participating in the initiative include major employers such as FEMSA, Walmart, Grupo Carso, Coppel, Lala, Bayer, Grupo Bimbo, and CEMEX.

Available roles range from commercial advisors and plant coordinators to construction supervisors and paramedics. Salaries for operational roles start at around $424 USD per month and can go up to $843 USD, while for technical positions, monthly salaries range between $800 and $1,600 USD, as reported by La Opinión. Some professional roles offer over $2,000 USD.

According to officials, the program will continue to grow, with an emphasis on labor-demanding sectors such as agriculture and construction.

MarvinTraveler on April 19th, 2025 at 19:11 UTC »

If only.

Mexican here. As much as I despise the Orange wannabe Emperor, and I would be glad that Mexico would have good countermeasures available for his bullying, I have to say that this looks just as a smokescreen by the Mexican government.

Most of those jobs that are being “available” were like that before. The mitigation of this problem is not as simple as the politicians want it to appear.

Over several decades, the Mexican governments (from all colors and ideologies) have abandoned the rural regions to whatever fate gets them, concentrating any efforts in cities, where most of the population lives. In those rural areas, people have made the conclusion that working the fields won’t give them enough to have a half decent life, so most of the young population emigrated to the US -yes, most of the time via illegal ways-. The numbers are so big (millions) that this workforce constitutes the primary source of hard currency for Mexico. Given the disparity in exchange, most of the time the people that have worked in the US and come back to Mexico DON’T want to have any job that pays in pesos. This creates all kinds of distortions in the economy, mainly diluting the earnings that these people got working in the US under often really bad conditions.

This immense illegal workforce has been used and abused by politicians at BOTH sides of the border. In the US, most of them work either in areas that can’t operate or have a significant reduction during winter (agriculture, construction, restaurants, hotels) and/or where working conditions are pretty horrible (meat packing). In Mexico, the money they send to their relatives is injected to the economy and provides a relief valve to a severe poverty problem.

The abuse continues now, with the Orange Turd playing a game as old as politics (“look at that guy that is not from this land, he is the one guilty of all the problems!”), and Mexican politicians pretending to “protect our migrants” while ignoring (or whitewashing) the multiple causes of a complex problem.

X_Ender_X on April 19th, 2025 at 15:58 UTC »

Between Canada's Sleeping Bear waking up, Europe's alliance, and the rest of the world's General disdain of our actions Trump is making every country in the world great except America

Crossstoney on April 19th, 2025 at 15:53 UTC »

"In response to the wave of deportations ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump, the Mexican administration, led by President Claudia Sheinbaum, has launched a national employment program to help reintegrate returning citizens into the local workforce.

In partnership with the country's leading business group, the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial (CCE), the government introduced "México te abraza" ("Mexico embraces you"), an initiative aimed at connecting deported Mexicans with immediate job opportunities.

The CCE announced that over 220 companies have made 63,880 job vacancies available through the Conexión Empresarial Paisano platform, as Mexico's Síntesis Digital reports. These positions are spread across all 32 states in Mexico. Nuevo León leads the country with 9,401 job openings, followed by Mexico City with 7,206 and the State of Mexico with 4,840. Other states, including Jalisco and Guanajuato, also feature prominently in the distribution of vacancies.

The initiative builds on a commitment made in January to provide at least 50,000 jobs to those returning from the United States. "Mexico wants them to know they are welcome and that they can find dignified, well-paying work," said Francisco Cervantes Díaz, president of the CCE, to Síntesis."

- The Latin Times