San jOse. – In the campaign that finished with its electoral triumph in November of 2020, Joe Biden to promise that as president he would annul “immediately the draconians” or cruel ones migration policies of Donald Trump with Guatemalans, Hondurans and Salvadorans, and that it would attack the misery and insecurity that caravans of visa-free migrants encourage Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador a United States.
the newspaper The Washington Post shell out some of the key ideas from Biden’s plan yesterday, which includes an eight-year path for migrants to get citizenship and will be sent on Wednesday to Congress, Which must be approved.
The idea is to allow them migrants are eligible for permanent legal residence after five years of residing in the United States, if they meet certain requirements, such as a background check and tax payment. They could apply to the public three years later. Another requirement to qualify, which seeks to prevent migratory waves, is that applicants have been in this country since at least January 1.
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New migrants could not apply to the Biden plan. The beneficiaries of the program YES: Young migrants who arrived in the United States as children, brought by their parents, as well as recipients of the GST, the program for migrants from nations affected by natural disasters, could apply for legal residency immediately, he said. explain the Post, which is based on information from transition team officials.
Although the closure of borders to face the Covid-19 partially contained the flow of irregular travelers from Central America, Cuba, Haiti, Africa and Asia to Mexico and the United States, Biden will assume the helm of the White house faced with the reissue of migratory messes in the face of the regional exacerbation of the socio-economic crisis by the pandemic, such as caravans that left in the first fortnight of January 2021 from Honduras.
Trump “left a disastrous legacy” and “a short-sighted approach to migration,” the Washington Office for Latin American Affairs (WOLA), A non – state institution that evaluates the human rights in the Western Hemisphere.
In a report on Biden’s challenges in arriving at the Oval Office, WOLA has indicated that with “increasing migration numbers” since mid-2020, Biden and Congress “must move fast” to ending “Trump’s deadly attacks on asylum seekers.”
“Biden will not be able to open its doors to migrants,” said the Guatemalan sociologist Carmen Rosa de León, Executive Director of the (non-state) Institute of Education for Sustainable Development of Guatemala.
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“A more humane immigration reform is being sought, without repression and without allowing masses of migrants to enter the United States. It will not radically change the possibility of entry, it will not want to open borders or , illegally, or that the country will be less harsh with migrants, “De Leon told THE UNIVERSAL.
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Biden promised to tackle the problems of poverty, violence and insecurity as the roots of the migration drama and to propose a $ 4 billion socio-economic assistance plan to Central America, With an emphasis on Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador as North triangle, To discourage the emergence of mobilizations that, through illicit means, seek to enter the country from Mexico.
“May be [con Biden] the subhuman conditions and almost concentration and torture camps that Trump established, “said Guatemalan social communicator Iduvina Hernández, [no estatal] Association for the Study and Promotion of Security in Democracy, Guatemala. Recalling that in the Barack Obama administration (2009-2017) there were mass deportations of Central Americans, Hernández explained to this newspaper that the expulsions will continue because “it is not the arrival of a new government that will change the persecution of irregular migration will continue. “
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“It is desirable that [Estados Unidos] stop using immigration policy in Central American governments and stop being these violators of their own internal mobility treaties, ”he said.
next Nicaragua, The triangle drags decades of social injustices, dictatorships, militarism, corruption and impunity and in all four, with updated figures of 40.9 million inhabitants in 2021, more than half of its inhabitants survive in misery and exclusion and they increase the expeditions of marginalized Central Americans who choose to embark on a dangerous land crossing to Mexico and that nation.
A mixture of official and unofficial estimates showed that, legally or illegally, in the United States live about 7 million Guatemalans, Hondurans and Salvadorans who in 2020 contributed about $ 22 million to the economies of their countries in family remittances later to send $ 21,681 million in 2019.