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Then why are so many migrants crossing Mexico (walking, spending lifes' savings on coyotes, sending children alone, ...) to come to the US?
by eplanit 5y ago
Then why are so many migrants crossing Mexico (walking, spending lifes' savings on coyotes, sending children alone, ...) to come to the US?
- netr0ute 5y agoMexico could be worse, but could also be better.
- runawaybottle 5y agoEarning potential is simply better in the US. It’s not just Mexicans that figured it out, but immigrants worldwide did. People with decent lives all over the world fly here and overstay their visas because the earning potential is just greater. The truth behind the ‘all immigrants are desperate’ narrative is most are not desperate, but ambitious, and literally making a business decision.
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- guythedudebro 5y agoMexico isn't in South America
- quantumBerry 5y agoAre you proposing that it is possible to travel by land from South America to USA without entering Mexico? Or perhaps the impoverished South Americans are buying yachts and tourist visas to bypass Mexico?
- SyzygistSix 5y agoMexico and Central America are not South America.
- InitialLastName 5y agoHow many of those are from South America? My understanding was that most of that migration was from Central America, largely Guatemala and Mexico itself. Among other things walking (or traveling in any way, really) through the border area between Colombia and Panama, including southern Panama, is tough-bordering-on-impassable, even relative to crossing the US border in the desert.