Thread: Mexico’s Richest Man Urges Young U.S. Immigrants Into Workforce

Mexico’s Richest Man Urges Young U.S. Immigrants Into Workforce
By Patricia Laya Aug 14, 2014 12:01 AM ET


Photographer: Yuti Cortez/AFP via Getty Images
The Slim Foundation has introduced a website that informs potential applicants of requirements needed to apply, including videos that describe how to fill out the forms and direct links to check on an application’s status.

Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire who ranks as the world’s second-richest person, has introduced a campaign to integrate about half a million young immigrants into the U.S. workforce.

About 1.1 million people in the U.S. are eligible for work authorization under a program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, for undocumented immigrants who arrived to the country as children. Only about half have been approved, Carlos Slim Foundation Chief Executive Officer Roberto Tapia-Conyer said in a phone interview.

“This is a population of great potential, and our goal is to reduce the access barriers for them to reach this potential,” Tapia-Conyer said. “We want to incorporate them to the formal workforce, to build not just them but their families, so they’re able to contribute to the economy.”

Slim, the son of a Lebanese immigrant to Mexico, amassed his fortune by recognizing the depressed value of assets during the country’s financial crisis in the 1980s. He acquired control of former state monopoly Telefonos de Mexico in a 1990 privatization, helping propel him to the echelons of the world’s richest, trailing only Bill Gates with a fortune of $79.2 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Photographer: Susana Gonzalez/Bloomberg

While most of his wealth comes from his companies in Mexico, Slim has investments in the U.S., including the nation’s biggest prepaid phone provider, TracFone, and a minority stake in New York Times Co.

Economic opportunities for DACA beneficiaries have risen since the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced the program two years ago, according to a June research brief from the American Immigration Council. The program’s benefits appear to be the strongest for young people attending four-year colleges and those with college degrees, according to the report.

Still, high application fees and lack of awareness have kept the program from reaching as many people as possible, Tapia-Conyer said. The Slim Foundation has introduced a website that informs potential applicants of requirements needed to apply, including videos that describe how to fill out the forms and direct links to check on an application’s status.

Slim has been praised and criticized for his approach to philanthropy. He has said he won’t join the Giving Pledge started by billionaires Warren Buffett and Gates to encourage the world’s wealthiest people to give away half of their wealth to charity, arguing that it’s more important to develop companies instead, taking people out of poverty through employment.

Hispanics will make up a third of the U.S. population by 2060, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. Through March, more than 550,000 people had been approved for DACA, mostly from Mexico, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services data.

The Slim Foundation website offers video job-training courses for sought-after professions, ranging from electrician to bank teller, Tapia-Conyer said. Students are tested and then validated for their skills. The site also has links to online classes translated to Spanish from colleges such as Stanford University, through previously announced partnerships with groups like Coursera Inc.

To contact the reporter on this story: Patricia Laya in Mexico City at playa2@bloomberg.net

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Mexican Billionaire, NYT Minority Owner Launches Campaign to Bring DREAMers into US Workforce

by Tony Lee 14 Aug 2014, 9:33 AM PDT
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Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire who also owns a minority stake in The New York Times, is reportedly launching an effort to bring every illegal immigrant DREAMer into the workforce.

As Bloomberg News noted, Slim is the world’s second-richest person--second only to Bill Gates--and he "has introduced a campaign to integrate about half a million" DREAMers into the U.S. workforce. According to Bloomberg, "About 1.1 million people in the U.S. are eligible for work authorization" under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, but "only about half have been approved."

Roberto Tapia-Conyer, CEO of Carlos Slim Foundation, told Bloomberg News that illegal immigrant DREAMers comprise "a population of great potential, and our goal is to reduce the access barriers for them to reach this potential."

“We want to incorporate them to the formal workforce, to build not just them but their families, so they’re able to contribute to the economy," Tapia-Conyer continued.

The paper has been one of President Barack Obama's most ferocious cheerleaders on amnesty. In recent weeks, the outlet has asserted, even though the numbers prove otherwise, that it was "delusional" to think that President Obama's DACA program lured more illegal immigrants to America. The paper even mocked its own Republican columnist for criticizing Obama's potential Caesarism. Opponents of Obama's executive action have emphasized that granting millions of work permits to illegal immigrants would make it more difficult for American workers, of all races and backgrounds, to get jobs. The Times has called these opponents "nativists."

"It would be good to see Mr. Obama join other Democrats and Republicans in making the moral and legal case for compassionate action, to lead a backlash against the nativist backlash," the Times recently wrote. "And while he’s at it, he can reaffirm his commitment to protecting, through executive action this year, millions of immigrants who have been here for years, who deserve the chance to legalize that Congress has refused them."

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...o-US-Workforce

Originally Posted by working4change

Hispanics will make up a third of the U.S. population by 2060, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. Through March, more than 550,000 people had been approved for DACA, mostly from Mexico, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services data.

If we don't implement immigration limits that actually serve the best interests of the American people, and if we don't implement Universal E-verify, this will be a serious problem.

The problem with Mexification is that there does not seem to be any end in sight. Blanco - the rich in Mexico - has been able to dump his poor people on us for decades. It's win-win for Blanco. There's no need to worry about creating jobs, because his poor people sneak into the United States and undercut Americans for jobs. An the money that those folks remit keeps his taxes low, too. Now we're faced with a president who seems to be didicated to thumbing his nose at the American people. So in addition to poor Mexicans, we're also being inundated with phony "refugees" from Central America.

Bamacrats don't care about Americans, they only care about locking up federal elected offices. Many Repubs don't care about Americans, they only care about appeasing their big-money donors. No matter that our middle class is shrinking, no matter that the number of people who have to get food stamps to put food on the table is growing. No matter that we're being colonized by people whom we do not even need.

If this crazyness is going to end well for Americans - including Mexican Americans - the American people are going to have to start paying close attention to who will actually represent the interests of the American people.
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