The United States will give $310 million in humanitarian relief to Central America. Vice President Kamala Harris who is leading in efforts to address the influx of migrants from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador across Mexico to the US border. The money is supposed to help with food insecurity which has been an ongoing problem ever since the start of covid. The money is also set to help government law enforcement efforts to tackle criminal organisations whose activities help drive migration as well as open migrant resource centres to establish safe, legal migration. The US will give $25 million to farmers and $30 million will go to Guatemala and Honduras for daily meals and literacy programmes for schoolchildren. More than 172,000 undocumented immigrants were detained in March at the southern border of the US. Many migrants have said Biden’s reversal of the hardline immigration policies of his predecessor former President Donald Trump gave them new hope.
The immigration into the United States is becoming a very complex and significant problem. The US can not accept everyone into the country because there is not enough land or jobs to balance them coming into the country. The money that the United States is providing to South American countries is a significant amount and should be enough to get them off their feet and back to a stable ground. For surrounding regions there will be countries that deny help from the United States and there will be countries who will turn away citizens from other countries. The immigration problem now is far worse then the immigration problem under President Trump.
From a level of analysis perspective, on an individual level, people are suffering from the hard ship of covid-19 by being let off of their jobs and the food insecurity is causing people to go hungry. On a state level, farmers in Guatemala and Honduras are receiving money from the United States to help keep the production of their farms going. On a regional level, countries are working together trading, citizens are traveling through them to get to the United states. On a global scale, citizens are seeking asylum in other countries to escape the hardships that are currently going on in their country and have hope of gaining a better life.