{"id":24297,"date":"2021-03-21T05:16:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T09:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24297"},"modified":"2021-03-21T05:16:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T09:16:30","slug":"el-salvador-president-immigration-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/03\/21\/el-salvador-president-immigration-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"The President of El Salvador Emphasizes That Mass Migration Involves Costs for Both Sending and Receiving Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The open-borders,\npro-mass-migration lobby all too often depicts mass migration \u2013 both legal and\neven illegal \u2013 as an undiluted good. Wealthy receiving nations get more workers\n(and cheaper ones!), consumers, and diversity; the poor migrants receive a\nmajor wage increase; and the underdeveloped sending nations get remittances and\na chance to export their impoverished masses. Everyone supposedly wins! And any\npotential negative consequences are either glossed over or smugly dismissed as\ninsignificant or irrelevant in the greater scheme of things. However, as\nPresident Nayib Bukele of El Salvador pointed out, there are indeed important\ncosts associated with mass migration which impact both the countries to which\nthe migrants are heading (receiving nations) and <\/em>those they are leaving\n(sending nations).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Bukele, who has been the leader of the Central American nation since June 2019, shared his thoughts on migration and the situation in his country with Fox News host Tucker Carlson<\/a> in a March 16 interview<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked by Carlson why\nso many Salvadorans continue to migrate to the U.S. illegally, Mr. Bukele\nreplied that \u201cwell, it\u2019s obvious, our country has failed to provide two basic\nthings which are the two main drivers of immigration, which [are]the lack of\neconomic opportunity and the lack of security.\u201d He added that \u201cmost people\ndon\u2019t want to leave their country: they like their culture, they like their\nfood, they like their weather, I mean it\u2019s their country, they have their\nfamily members here, their friends (\u2026).\u201d Rather than blaming \u201ccapitalism,\u201d U.S.\nforeign policy, insufficient foreign aid, or the climate (as many apologists of\nmass illegal migration do), El Salvador\u2019s head of state is clear that the root\nof the problem lies in bad policies at home (which, he argues, he has been\nattempting to fix).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carlson then asked about\npull factors, in particular the lure of welfare benefits \u2013 \u201cif the richest\ncountry in the world says: if you cross over the border, we will give you free\nhealthcare, free education, and all these benefits, that\u2019s a draw, isn\u2019t it?\u201d\nBukele admitted that this is certainly an \u201cincentive,\u201d adding that mass\nmigration is a game of pros and cons: \u201cyou may have a con that probably you\ndon\u2019t know the language, the journey is a difficult one, [and]you may die on\nthe journey, but in the end if they will receive a lot of things then the pros\ngo up and the cons go down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As importantly, the\npresident of El Salvador emphasized that it is \u201cimmoral\u201d and \u201cnot profitable\u201d\nfor a country to push its people to emigrate en masse<\/em>. A nation must\n\u201cprovide for [its]people.\u201d Moreover, \u201cif you send your hard-working people,\nand your talented people, (\u2026) who want to risk it just to go and work, you want\nto keep them here because those would be the drivers of your economy. You don\u2019t\nwant them there so they could send a remittance, which would be a small portion\nof what they would earn and produce. You want them to produce here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Bukele argued that\nthe \u201cdependence\u201d on illegal migration is bad for both the United States and\nLatin American countries. Sadly, he did not elaborate on why it is bad for the\nU.S., other than pointing out that the dependence increases illegal migration\nlevels. The Salvadoran leader was more specific when he explained that a\ncountry being a \u201cnet exporter of people,\u201d rather than products or services, is\nultimately \u201cnot a good economic formula\u201d and fuels a \u201cvicious cycle.\u201d He\nreiterated that \u201cthe best thing for both of us [the U.S. and El Salvador]is to\nkeep our people here and to provide for our people right here in our country,\nand that\u2019s what people right here want.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who genuinely\nbelieve that by tolerating mass illegal migration wealthy Western nations are\nhelping poor countries would do well to consider Mr. Bukele\u2019s common-sense\nargument. Fueling the \u201cdependence\u201d of Latin America \u2013 and the \u201cGlobal South\u201d in\ngeneral \u2013 on the mass export of migrants is in many ways a disservice to the\ndeveloping world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The open-borders, pro-mass-migration lobby all too often depicts mass migration \u2013 both legal and even illegal \u2013 as an undiluted good. Wealthy receiving nations get more workers (and cheaper ones!), consumers, and diversity; the poor migrants receive a major wage increase; and the underdeveloped sending nations get remittances and a chance to export their impoverished<\/p>\n

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