Since there is currently a crisis of either economic migrants or refugees from these countries showing up in Texas, and we don't want that to happen, I wonder if it would make any sense to try to improve the situation in those countries and maybe that would make the problem go away?
Some basic facts from Wikipedia:
Combined, the three countries have a population of about 30 million, and a combined GDP of around $90 billion. For comparison, that's roughly one-tenth of the US population and 1/175th of the GDP.
For example: free trade? If they could earn more money at home, maybe they wouldn't try to come here? And I'm sure we already give some amount of development aid to these countries, but is it enough?
That's the low-hanging fruit I suppose, but it's probably hardly a panacea for their problems. It seems that poor, disfunctional countries tend to stay that way, even when well-intentioned people try to help. Haiti is an example. We've intervened there before, but the basic situation never seems to improve.
Actually, if you look at the numbers, if they are to be believed, the GDPs in those countries, especially Guatemala, are growing rapidly. In 10 years it has doubled in Guatemala and Honduras. And yet, we have more refugees now than before (or do we?).
Some basic facts from Wikipedia:
Combined, the three countries have a population of about 30 million, and a combined GDP of around $90 billion. For comparison, that's roughly one-tenth of the US population and 1/175th of the GDP.
For example: free trade? If they could earn more money at home, maybe they wouldn't try to come here? And I'm sure we already give some amount of development aid to these countries, but is it enough?
That's the low-hanging fruit I suppose, but it's probably hardly a panacea for their problems. It seems that poor, disfunctional countries tend to stay that way, even when well-intentioned people try to help. Haiti is an example. We've intervened there before, but the basic situation never seems to improve.
Actually, if you look at the numbers, if they are to be believed, the GDPs in those countries, especially Guatemala, are growing rapidly. In 10 years it has doubled in Guatemala and Honduras. And yet, we have more refugees now than before (or do we?).
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