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Authorities in the United States are planning to send some migrants from Latin America for settlement in Greece and Italy.
CBS reports that this is a way of discouraging people in the region from travelling to the US/Mexico border.
The plan would involve Greece and Italy welcoming migrants processed at Immigration offices that the government set up last year in four Latin American countries to screen migrants who hope to reach the US.
The centres which are officially known as Safe Mobility Offices, allow some migrants in Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Guatemala to apply to go to the US legally. Under the new arrangement, Greece and Italy would join Canada and Spain in resettling some of those processed at the offices.
The offices are one component of the Administration’s strategy to reduce irregular crossings at the US border by offering would-be migrants legal immigration opportunities
