Zoila Ponce de León, assistant professor of politics at Washington and Lee University: “In his announcement, the president made multiple references to ‘skilled workers’ to help build government-funded infrastructure, highlighting the need for engineers as well as welders and blacksmiths. Migrant workers would be sought out only for public works projects, not private endeavors. However, the government works with private construction companies on several infrastructure projects. Per the Federal Labor Law, as revised in 2015, Mexican companies are prohibited from having a work force that is more than 10 percent foreign; they can employ migrant workers only if there is a shortage of Mexican workers. A second important point is that these would be only temporary visas for a one-year period, which is similar to other efforts in Latin America, particularly targeting Venezuelan migrants, as well as in the United States. Therefore, the program is not…”