José Díaz Briseño/ Reform Agency Correspondent
Tuesday, January 10, 2023 | 11:22
Washington DC, United States.- During the North American Leaders Summit, the governments of the United States and Mexico will announce the installation of a migration resource center in Tapachula, Chiapas, to provide assistance to people who cross through that city in Chiapas on legal migration routes.
Similar to a center inaugurated in December 2021 in the Guatemalan city of Quetzaltenango that has the support of United Nations multilateral agencies, the Tapachula migration resource center seeks to offer services to vulnerable migrants who aim to reach the US.
According to a statement issued by the White House on the agreements that are expected to be announced by the Presidents of the US, Joe Biden, and Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the migration resource center in Tapachula also has the support of the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.
Without establishing a specific date for its opening yet, the immigration resource center would have the support of the private initiative, according to the White House; the Quetzaltenango center was built with funding from the US Department of State’s Office of Population, Refugees, and Migration.
In addition to the center in Tapachula, the US government also cited the creation of a new digital platform on the Internet to guide potential migrants or migrants in transit to the US about the legal ways to migrate as well as the resources available to avoid irregular migration.
The announcement of the creation of the migration resource center and the migrant care platform are part of a series of announcements in areas that also include the fight against climate change as well as supply chains that will be announced today by the US Presidents, Canada and Mexico.
