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.
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”.