Crossing to the ‘promised land’. Myriad of complex reasons draw Latinos to America

“We all know that there has always been Latino immigration into the United States. But in recent decades, the immigration has intensified, much of it illegal. Why? The problem is complex, but I will explore some of its causes.

One is the intrusion of the U.S. government into the Latin-American countries, controlling their governments, strangling their economies and imposing the elimination of their subsidies for basic commodities that enabled the poor in those countries to survive. The small middle class became poor and the workers and small farmers went from being poor to living in misery.

Another cause is NAFTA, i.e., the imposition of the Free Trade Agreement in Latino America. It triggered the closing of locally owned industries and the abandonment of the agricultural fields in Latin America because they could not compete with the prices of imported goods. Large percentages of people became jobless and poorer.”

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