Recently the talk in South America has been directed towards Venezuela. A Country whose population has been dropping. People aren’t dying at rapid numbers they have been leaving, close ot 5,000 each day. Usually when we see this vast amount of people leave it is due to war or religious persecution. That is not the case in Venezuela, they have been leaving due to economic instability. The past few years the number of migrants from Venezuela has risen to 3 million and is expected to read to 5m at the end of 2019.
This raises questions like, how will this affect the US? Will the U.S.’s illegal immigration problem grow?
In the next coming years I think the U.S. will start to see venezuelan illegal immigrants but it won’t drastically change the immigration problem. The problem in the U.S. will continue to get worse whether the Venezuelans make it to the U.S. border. I think the Venezuelans will end up going south because of the water barrier between Latin America and South America.
Although the smarter decision would to go south the Venezuelans run into to problems with Brazil. There they have been cutting off borders to migrants because of rival groups starting skirmishes on the outskirts of Brazil.
If this continues the America’s could have a problem compared to what’s going on in Europe. If Venezuela does not attempt to sustain their government we will keep seeing the number climb.
I think if Venezuela wants it’s people to return or stay. It needs to listen to them and have an accessible economy. A similar comparison is what is going on in sub-saharan africa, one of many problems in the european immigration problems. The government needs to show it’s people it can be proud of its country and give its young people a chance so they can prosper.