They predict that 100,000 more Venezuelans could arrive and develop a plan to allow them to work in the provinces – 08/05/2019

When the crisis in Venezuela became a problem of humanitarian characteristics, the countries of the region began to notice a change in their immigrant population. In particular, they were the main recipients of Venezuelan immigration, Colombia and Brazil, their two neighbors. In other more remote areas, such as Argentina, special and flexible regulations have been prepared to receive them. And now, sometimes Venezuelans have become the first nationality to enter the country, the government is working with its local leaders as part of a program to resettle them in the provinces.

"The reason that motivated this public policy is that most immigrants reside in the federal capital and in the first cordon of Buenos Aires", says a report prepared by the National Directorate of Migration and obtained Clarin. The initiative was taken after several agencies of the national government and the city of Buenos Aires demonstrated concern by the continuous flow of immigrants to a country that has an open and friendly border policy, but also significant economic and employment problems.

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Recently, in an interview to this newspaper, the ambbadador appointed by Juan Guaidó – the "president in charge" of Venezuela who rose against the regime of Nicolás Maduro – reported that in Argentina had registered 180,000 Venezuelans what could be more because not all are registered – and if the crisis in Venezuela continues at this rate in the coming months could reach 100,000 more. "In terms of management, agreements have been signed and we are working with the governments of Chubut, Río Negro, Neuquén and San Juan, as they begin negotiations with the other provinces," they say Migrations.

"We must integrate people through the tool that has made Argentina a power: work. We can create a system that works in a balanced way with the 24 provinces, where each is a possibility. Internal migration is also imbued with this spirit when the future is omnipresent. Like Canada, we can build development centers with four poles, "said Horacio García, National Director of Migration, when designing the program at the end of the year and early in 2019, when President Mauricio Macri has decreed a reform of the law on migration to accelerate the expulsion of foreign perpetrators of crimes – which has sparked criticism from the kirchnerist opposition – the government was talking about starting "reorganize" migratory flows in a geographical way.

In government, they consider it a success that this immigration that comes well formed It already has 278 health professionals redirected to Corrientes, Jujuy, Neuquén, Río Negro, Tierra del Fuego, Catamarca, Entre Ríos, Córdoba and Salta. And that, in Neuquén and Bariloche, Venezuelans work in hotels and businesses, develop businesses or also work in airlines such as Flybondi. In Argentina, there are around 20,000 professionalsmainly engineers or the health sector. It is only in 2019 that the Ministry of Education has legalized 500 diplomas in the capital and nearly 7,000 Venezuelans have already validated their diplomas at universities outside the city of Buenos Aires.

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"Thanks to YPF, more than 80 professionals are working on the Vaca Muerta oil project," official sources said. And different companies or institutions have launched tenders for engineers and technicians. "There are health professionals recruited by the government of Tierra del Fuego and Rio Negro, Lanús hospital oncology hospital, San Lucas medical center of Gualeguaychú", is an example. Migrations works with Renatre (institution with 10,000 immigrants in its registers) for guide the foreigners who can do rural tasks.

The program launched by the Ministry of the Interior through Migrations is working with the education team of Minister Alejandro Finocchiaro, the Venezuela Unit that Jorge Faurie opened at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. and with a team from the Ministry of Production to coordinate with provincial proposals and requests. The idea is to work in advance in the settlement plan of these immigrants. For this, community leaders have talked about training in production and migration and they will work with radio online and remotely, so that when someone wants to come to the country suggest one or the other destination according to their profession.

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Immigrants enjoy the same constitutional rights as Argentines in the use of health and public education, and only in the capital and province of Buenos Aires have 4,000 new students been enrolled in primary and secondary schools.

Venezuelan immigration to Argentina He went from fifth to first in just two years. In 2016, Paraguayans, Bolivians, Peruvians, Colombians and Venezuelans came to the country. In 2017, it rose to third place and in 2018 to the top, with 70,531 out of a total of 221,892, according to data from the National Directorate of Migration. Between 2012 and 2018, the number of temporary deposits was 107,950 and the permanent documents 19,202. In total, since the beginning of the management of Cambiemos, 700,000 foreigners have settled in the country.

Overall, the Argentine crisis is one of the factors that has he carried away the enthusiasm Venezuelans to come here. This is shown by the fact that in this first quarter there were fewer permanent and temporary listings that in the same period of 2018: 13 721 permanent in the first three months of this year against 17 309 in 2018 and temporary, 27 154 against 27 528.

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