Good. The US in large part grew off the backs of immigrants. Let them experience the boom too.
Scarcity mindset – while understandable – is a toxin for society. Let Brazil and Colombia benefit while Chile and Peru repeat the mistakes of nativism.
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Since no one is actually going to read the article, which was written before most of the Trump things went into effect, this is about Latin American countries dealing with increased migration between Latin American borders, especially from Venezuela. The changing patterns started in 2015 after Maduro, which moved Central America from the main source of immigrants to South America. It deals with attitudes to migrants in those receiving countries, which surprisingly are similar to what we’ve seen in the West-
>Many Latin Americans, especially Chileans, think migrants bring crime. A study by Nicolás Ajzenman of McGill University and co-authors, which examined data from between 2008 and 2017, found that when the proportion of migrants in a given part of Chile doubles, the share of people there who say crime is either their biggest or second-biggest concern jumps by 19 percentage points, relative to the nationwide mean of 36%. But they found no impact on crime of any sort. Colombia saw an increase in violent crime near the border in 2016, when migration was surging, but the victims tended to be Venezuelan, suggesting it is migrants who bear the risks.
>Still, crime has risen overall in Chile in recent years. Politicians blame migrants. The influx of black Haitians also “triggered much more evident racism”, says Ignacio Eissmann of the Jesuit Migrant Service in Chile, an ngo. Attitudes are hardening elsewhere, too. Between 2020 and 2023 the share of Costa Ricans who say migrants damage the country jumped by 15 percentage points to 65%. In Peru and Ecuador four in five people believe the same.
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Good. The US in large part grew off the backs of immigrants. Let them experience the boom too.
Scarcity mindset – while understandable – is a toxin for society. Let Brazil and Colombia benefit while Chile and Peru repeat the mistakes of nativism.
Come to Spain!
Since no one is actually going to read the article, which was written before most of the Trump things went into effect, this is about Latin American countries dealing with increased migration between Latin American borders, especially from Venezuela. The changing patterns started in 2015 after Maduro, which moved Central America from the main source of immigrants to South America. It deals with attitudes to migrants in those receiving countries, which surprisingly are similar to what we’ve seen in the West-
>Many Latin Americans, especially Chileans, think migrants bring crime. A study by Nicolás Ajzenman of McGill University and co-authors, which examined data from between 2008 and 2017, found that when the proportion of migrants in a given part of Chile doubles, the share of people there who say crime is either their biggest or second-biggest concern jumps by 19 percentage points, relative to the nationwide mean of 36%. But they found no impact on crime of any sort. Colombia saw an increase in violent crime near the border in 2016, when migration was surging, but the victims tended to be Venezuelan, suggesting it is migrants who bear the risks.
>Still, crime has risen overall in Chile in recent years. Politicians blame migrants. The influx of black Haitians also “triggered much more evident racism”, says Ignacio Eissmann of the Jesuit Migrant Service in Chile, an ngo. Attitudes are hardening elsewhere, too. Between 2020 and 2023 the share of Costa Ricans who say migrants damage the country jumped by 15 percentage points to 65%. In Peru and Ecuador four in five people believe the same.