For 30 years, agreements between Mexico y Canadaespecially in the area of migration, where Mexico has sent nearly half a million agricultural workers to work legally in Canadian fields.
According to a request for information from The herald of Mexicothe Secretary of Labor and Social Security (STPS) indicated that from 1990 to 2021 it sent 433,000 434 agricultural workers to Canada, with the temporary work visa mechanism and through the Temporary Agricultural Workers Program. Year after year the number of visas also grows, given that in 2001 there were 10,529 agricultural workers who went to Canada, but after 10 years, that is, in 2021 it more than doubled, registering 24,158 Mexican workers.
Ontario is the province where the majority of Mexican farmers worked, as of the total, 44 percent (193,962 workers) are sent to that area to work on the crops of apples, blackberries, cherries, blueberries, grapes, peaches. , pears, strawberries, among others.
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