Mexico's Pledge to Give Deportees Jobs Hits Snag Over US Flights
By and Maya Averbuch
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Mexico's government has pledged to provide jobs for citizens deported from the US, but recent data shows that barely 4% of the tens of thousands expelled since late January have been matched with employment.
Mexican officials initially expected that planes carrying deportees would land in Mexico City, where they had organized services to receive them. But their plans were disrupted when US deportation flights began landing instead at airports in southern Mexico.
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