Mexican Companies Have More Than 50,000 Job Offerings For Deportees Since Trump's Inauguration: Report

With large number of deportations already taking place under Donald Trump's administration, Mexico and the Business Coordinating Council (CCE) have been working together for the past month to create thousands of new jobs for Mexican nationals impacted by Trump's mass deportation plans.

The CCE operates as a non-profit organization that focuses on coordinating policies and actions of business organizations to increase economic growth, the level of competitiveness, foster democracy and to boost the free market.

Since January, 50,486 new job openings have been made available to Mexican nationals returning to their home country. According to CCE's latest report, a total of 148 companies have participated in the program "Mexico te abraza," an initiative launched by President Claudia Sheinbaum to help deportees with social programs, free transport, job opportunities and a prepaid card with $98 for personal expenses.

And according to Francisco Cervantes Díaz, CCE president, private companies have done most of the work and opened thousands of new opportunities since Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20.

Unpublished U.S. Department of Homeland Security data shows that President Donald Trump deported 37,660 people during his first month in office. And as reported by Reuters, a senior Trump administration official estimates that deportations will rise in the coming months.

"We are certain that we will find the necessary talent that we need to fill out the new openings with the people that are coming back to Mexico," Díaz said on Feb. 24. He added that individuals can get information about potential openings at different "repatriation checkpoints" along the U.S.-Mexico border, at airports and at local and federal government buildings.

The more than 50,000 jobs surpasses the number President Claudia Sheinbaum estimated when she made a pledge on Jan. 23 to create 35,000 jobs for deportees. "It is a plan to help our country in the long run," Sheinbaum said. "It is not a plan to face President Trump...it is not conjunctural."

According to the data shared by CCE on Feb. 24, the state of Nuevo León tops the list of entities with the most jobs created for deportees (7,379), followed by Jalisco ((4,022), Estado de México (4,003) and Mexico City (3,715).

Roberto Campa, director of corporate affairs at FEMSA, one of Mexico's largest retail, logistics, and healthcare companies, highlighted the support showed by the Mexican government and their collaboration with the private sector.

"We are doing a huge effort so that people can have options and make a good life here in Mexico," Campa said. He invited companies in the construction, tourism and agriculture industries to join the program.

When Sheinbaum announced the initiative last month, Díaz said that companies such as Iberdrola, a Spanish multinational electric utility company, had agreed to participate. Since then, other major companies such as Walmart, Sam's Club, FEMSA's Oxxo convenience stores and Bimbo have also joined forces.