Immigration to the U.S Southern Border
What Countries are People Coming From?
Immigration is happening from multiple countries at the United States southern border. These countries include Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Cuba.
The 5 Locations South of United States Border (Bandyopadhyay, S., & Guerrero, R, December 12th, 2017).
What are the Specific Push Factors Causing Them to Leave?
People are fleeing these countries because of poor governance, economic instability, corruption, and violence.
What are the Specific Pull Factors Enticing Them to The U.S.?
The four main pull factors that entice immigration to the United States are safety factors, economic factors, environmental factors, and social factors.
Root Causes of Why Immigration is Happening (Root Cause of Migration, March 15th, 2017).
What are Large-Scale Socioeconomic Impacts of This Large Immigration Wave?
List of Positives/Negatives Impacts for Other Countries Versus The United States (Home. Embraceni.org, 2021). (The positive economic impact of immigration, June 16th, 2021).
Escaping Domestic Abuse
Josefina is from Tijuana, Mexico, and is the age of 51. She did not have really much of anything. Her house was made of cardboard and brick and only had two beds for a family of 5. Her husband was very abusive and one day was encouraged by her sister to make the journey across the border. On a late-night, she and the oldest daughter took on the journey with hardly any food or water. She describes later on in her story as they had "very little to eat" and "little sips of water" to survive on the journey. On July 4th they would reach Los Angeles and find Americans that helped them out. Finally the next day they took Josefina and her daughter to East Palo Alto, the location of which where her brother owned a house.
To find out more about Josefina and her story, click the button below (Margolies, July 24, 2020).
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Council on Foreign Relations. (n.d.). Central America's Turbulent Northern Triangle. Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved September 14, 2021, from https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/central-americas-turbulent-northern-triangle.
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