I've been following the border issues for the last few years. What has surprised me throughout the entirety is how little the topic of "what if something logic

I've been following the border issues for the last few years. What has surprised me throughout the entirety is how little the topic of "what if something logical is driving them AWAY from south america" comes up, when compared to assumptions of misdirection, malice, greed and partisanship. Here's some ad-hoc statistics from Columbia. Bogota [0] and Medellin [1], and I don't think the Venezuela situation needs citation. While the stats aren't uniformly aligned, enough of the "violence"/"perception of violence" stats have increased markedly over the last 2-4 years (street robberies under [1] is a good example) to make me ask whether the migration we're seeing is a natural and emergent result from a deterioration of order in some areas of South America. God knows if I lived there I'd have already started booking it north when hyperinflation and food riots kicked in. No need for ulterior motives there, at least. [0] https://data.colombiareports.com/bogota-crime-security-statistics/ https://data.colombiareports.com/bogota-crime-security-stati... [1] https://data.colombiareports.com/medellin-crime-security-statistics/ https://data.colombiareports.com/medellin-crime-security-sta...