President Donald Trump's agents are shutting down a semi-secret federal program that moves reduced-wage labor from Central and South America to jobs in the United States and Europe.
safe mobility initiative It sought to establish a number of secure mobility offices in foreign countries where low-wage foreigners could apply for visas to live and work in the United States and Europe.
CBS News has been reported January 23rd:
Trump administration is shut down processing office Latin America was created to give immigrants the option of legal immigration and discourage them from crossing the southern border illegally, according to internal government documents obtained by CBS News.
Offices established in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Guatemala allowed certain immigrants living in or transiting those countries to apply for programs that would allow them to legally enter the United States.
“A State Department document said the Trump administration is suspending the operation as part of a broader effort to assess how the United States manages immigration processes that serve U.S. national interests.” the book added.
More than 30,000 immigrants have passed through the pipeline since 2024, including H-2A and H-2B work visas, parole loopholes, and asylum claims.
The plan was the brainchild of President Joe Biden's enthusiastic immigration border czar, Alejandro Meirerkas, and Biden's immigration official, Antony Blinken.
Their agents then wrapped up the plan, along with multiple South American, Central American, and European countries, including Spain, in a larger immigration treaty called the LA Declaration.
“Number of refugees we have committed to accepting [in 2025] From this hemisphere it's 35,000-50,000 [and] 125,000, globally,” Meirerkas, Biden’s Cuban-born immigration chief, said in September 2024. meeting in washington d.c.
“If you ask me, in terms of my personal story, those numbers should be much, much higher,” he added.
“I think there's a chance that we might actually take on the goals that we've been pushing personally from the White House and the concept of 'working neighbors,'” said Bolivian immigrant appointed to Biden's National Security Council. said Marcela Escobari. A September 16 conference sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
she added:
What I see around this table is a new “brave coalition.” Governments make tough decisions in the interest of their countries and our region, and in the rejection of the politics of xenophobia and hatred. . . Our collective progress should be a source of pride and continued cooperation for the benefit of all citizens.
Escobari helped start the International.”worker's neighbor” program in 2024 to quietly help us and European employers hire more immigrants from South America.
The program became part of the multinational Los Angeles Declaration Bureau, which aimed to create a migration pipeline out of South America.
“Truly millions of people…are being allowed to resume their lives.'' [in the United States and Europe]Escobari told the Carnegie Conference.
This program was similar to George W. Bush's wealth-changing “any willing worker” program.
“New immigration laws should respond to our country's economic needs,” Bush said. announcement January 2004. “When an American employer offers a job that an American citizen is not willing to accept, we should welcome the person to fill that job into our country,” he said.
Democrats in Congress quietly funded the Safe Mobility Initiative program even as they capped the 1990 influx of immigrants at about 1 million a year.
Funding moved from Congress to the program through multiple agencies, including Mayorkas' Department of Homeland Security. Federal Emergency Management Agencythe State Department, and the United Nations.
Immigration advocates minimized the political perception of their plan because they knew their goals were increasingly unpopular.
“Someone said, 'We don't want immigrants to be sexy — we want them to be really boring.' [so] Biden's UN appointee, Amy Pope, told the Georgetown conference.
This is why we emphasize the importance of engaging stakeholders who are not traditionally around the table. [which is] In a way that meets the basic needs of the people they sponsor or serve and brings a human focus to the work…
It's also important to bring the private sector into the conversation, because behind closed doors we're saying, “We desperately need a sustainable workforce, and without immigration, we won't have a sustainable workforce.'' The private sector has the credibility to make that case, just as an NGO or UN organization can make it.
In May 2023, the Pope claimed that migration could “revitalize” American communities.
As Americans, we know that immigration has actually brought great benefits in our country. Even recent evidence shows that migration has revitalized dying communities. In fact, I was born in Cleveland, part of my life in Akron, and grew up in Pittsburgh. All of these cities have benefited from migration.
Biden's State Department under Tony Blinken celebrated by pushing for cheap labor and diversity migration.
But pro-immigration policies helped President Donald Trump defeat the Democratic Coalition in November. His State Department chief, Marco Rubio, is now opposing mass migration and defending Americans first.
