Mexico will allocate $8 million to two programs to repatriate Venezuelans.

 To reverse the high rates of migration from Venezuela, Mexico will allocate $8,124,000 to repatriation programs in 2024.

Information from the federal government provided to La Jornada indicates that the bilateral agreement, signed on March 1, establishes two programs.

The first, Together for Well-being, will begin in the second half of this year and will have a fund of $4,380,000. This fund will provide 5,000 people with six months of training in companies based in Venezuela.

The second, Sembrando Vida, will launch before June and will provide $117 a month to 4,000 farmers in the South American country for eight months.

Venezuelan migration is the fastest-growing. In 2023, there were 782,176 arrests of people in an irregular situation, of which 222,994 (28.5 percent) were of Venezuelan origin.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported that from March 1 to 21, the number of Venezuelans attempting to cross its border increased 66.9 percent compared to February.

In an informational card, the Mexican Foreign Ministry emphasized: "Mexico cannot accommodate all the migrants who leave their communities in search of better living conditions."

For this reason, the Ministry of People's Power for Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) signed the Letter of Intent on Bilateral Cooperation earlier this month, agreeing to implement two projects, aimed at 9,000 Venezuelans, with programs similar to those implemented by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico.