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Secretary Mayorkas and Secretary of State Blinken Remarks at a Press Conference on New Regional Migration Management Measures

Release Date: April 28, 2023

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken

난민 문제를 근본적으로 어떻게 해결할지 전반적으로 말하는 내용입니다.

	English	Korean
1	Ecuador, Costa Rica, Belize	에콰도르, 코스타리카, 벨리즈
2	Nicaragua	니카라과
3	Operation Welcome	브라질 웰컴 작전
4	Aliy	엘라이 (사람 이름)

Of course, fundamentally we’re working to tackle the root causes of migration so that people don’t have to leave their homes in the first place. That includes investing and redirecting and mobilizing resources toward greater economic opportunities, as we’ve done through the more than $4.2 billion in private sector commitments that Vice President Harris has helped to secure for northern Central America. These investments by businesses and social enterprises will sustain and create jobs, connect people to the digital economy, expand access to financing, provide training and education for young people and workers, and improve economic livelihoods across the region.

We’re also investing in economic opportunity through the nearly $1.2 billion that we provided in humanitarian assistance across the region last year, and through initiatives like our commitment to work with our partners to train and equip 500,000 local healthcare workers across the hemisphere over the next five years so that more people can get quality care in their own communities. All of these investments will help people feel that they have a future in their own communities.

Now, of course many of these investments can take time to bear fruit. So we’re working in parallel on critical collaborations and initiatives with partners in the hemisphere to have a more near-term impact. First, we’re supporting host countries as they provide legal protections and assistance to refugees and migrants so that they can thrive in their new communities. We’re doing that by delivering funding to schools, health facilities, and other providers of support to migrants, funding the staffing and capacity-building of local asylum centers and systems, and supporting registration and documentation efforts so that individuals can gain and demonstrate legal status, which is critical for access to work, to schools, to social services.

Our partners in turn are doing extraordinary work in this area. Colombia, for example, has given 10-year temporary protected status to approximately 2.5 million Venezuelans, allowing them to work, to study, to access public services.  Ecuador, Costa Rica, Belize are also undertaking similar efforts to regularize migrants from Venezuela and Nicaragua, as well as Peru. We see efforts as well to forgive existing migrant overstay fines, effectively removing one of the largest barriers to regularization. Brazil’s “Operation Welcome” helped over 100,000 Venezuelans voluntarily resettle in places where they have greater economic opportunity.  Mexico and Canada are increasing the number of people that they welcome on a humanitarian basis.

We’re also working with partners in the hemisphere to accept repatriation flights, increase security forces along migration routes, provide more assistance to migrants and refugees. We continue to surge assistance to host countries throughout the hemisphere to help integrate refugees and migrants, and increase humanitarian aid and protection for vulnerable populations.

Second, we’re announcing a 60-day surge of urgent assistance to regional partners to enhance security, to counter smuggling – an effort that Aliy will share more about in a few moments.  We’re also working to counter disinformation being spread by traffickers and other bad actors, including by expanding our paid and earned media outreach to high out-migration communities and migrant routes through channels potentially reaching upward of 85 million people – so that people who want to migrate have accurate information about how to do so legally and safely, and know the dangers of putting themselves in the hands of traffickers.