A group of 50 large companies come together in Mexico to provide work to migrants from Cuba, Venezuela and Haiti

The coalitionTent Mexico, which brings together 50 large employer companies, promised that it will hire refugees and migrants from Cuba and other countries.

Taking into account that in recent years Mexico has welcomed more than 600,000 migrants from countries such as Venezuela, Haiti and Cuba, who cannot find formal employment, The company offers the opportunity to process permits and incorporate them as labor.

The initiative has the support of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Tent Mexico, member of theTent Partnership for Refugees, “is committed to hiring refugees and migrants on a large scale, as well as providing them with employability support in Mexico,” the company itself said in a press release.

Accenture, Accor Hotels, Adecco Group, Alsea, Amazon, Arca Continental, AT&T, Baxter, Chedraui, Chobani, Coppel, Comex, DHL Group, Dow Chemical, FEMSA, Forvia, Foundever, belong to that coalition.

GEPP, Globant, Bimbo Group, H&M, H-E-B, Hilton, HP Inc, HSBC, Hyatt, Ingenico, ISS, Kellanova, L'Oreal, LEAR, ManpowerGroup, Marriott International, Menzies Aviation, Microsoft, Orbia, Carvajal Organization, PayPal, PepsiCo Foods, Pfizer, Randstad, Rappi, Sanofi, SAP, Sutherland, Teleperformance, Ternium, Vertical Knits, Walmart, and WeWork complete the list.

“At Tent, we approach the refugee hiring process from a business perspective: as the Mexican economy continues to grow, companies have an incredible opportunity to meet their labor needs by recruiting refugees and migrants,” said Gideon Maltz, CEO ofTent.

The project could be a solution to regularize the status of Cuban migrants in Mexico and a way to find labor easily.

According to the statement, 75% of Mexican businessmen claim to have difficulties finding workers and there are between 1.2 and 1.6 million vacancies in the Mexican labor market.

The initiative also coincides with the US government's attempts to stop the wave of migration to that country,

Cubans occupy third place among the ten main nationalities that request recognition of refugee status in the Aztec country, only behind Haitians with 41,523 applications; and Hondurans, with 36,480.

In recent years, many Cubans, despite pursuing the dream of arriving in the United States, end up settling in the Aztec country, where they suffer long delays in the immigration regularization processes.

In 2023, the Mexican authorities counted the presence of 700,000 irregular migrants of different nationalities.

Of them, the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance has received applications from 44,239 Haitians, 18,386 Cubans and 5,517 Venezuelans.