By Bogdan Sajovic
El Savador President Nayib Bukele told Fox television a few days ago that the rise in migration from Latin American countries to the US is bad both for the US and Latin America.
The Salvadoran president attributed the increase in migrant pressure on the southern border of the United States to three factors, the lack of economic opportunities in Latin America, security problems, and the US promotion of migration. He was in sackcloth and ashes when he admitted that political structures in Latin America are responsible for the lack of economic opportunities and consequently for migrations to the north.
“If you do not take care of the citizens, if the economic situation is bad, if there is no security, they will move out,” Nayab Bukele said. “They will try to find a rich country. They will not move to Guatemala, but they will go to the United States.”
The Salvadoran president also said that these migrations are bad both for the US and Latin America. For the US because it is facing a huge number of migrants, and for Latin America because it is migrating its population. So instead of exporting goods, they are becoming exporters of people. What is even worse is that the most enterprising people, who could help improve the economic situation in the homeland, are the ones leaving.
