SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — A little more than 3,000 migrants in Tijuana have been able to land jobs in the maquiladora and restaurant industries since 2022.
Julia Gloria Gómez Martínez, director of the Migrant Workers Human Rights Center, says some migrants who have college degrees have even found work in engineering and medical fields, adding that many others are being helped to pursue their professional certifications in nursing and computer programming.
Gómez Martínez also said the maquiladora industry, in particular, has agreed to offer training and jobs to migrants in the future, to those who willingly arrive in the city of Tijuana or who have been deported from the U.S.
“Forty-seven percent of migrants who sought employment through us have found work and have remained here as part of the labor force.”
Gómez Martínez says there is also a critical shortage in the construction industry.
Baja California officials have also agreed to help migrants with work visas so they can find work and “settle in cities such as Tijuana.”
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