According to a study, approximately 431% of citizens from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador would be willing to emigrate to the United States in the next 12 months, seeing it as an opportunity to improve their current situation.
The study 'Charting a new regional course of action: the complex motivations and costs of Central American migration' highlights various factors that fuel irregular migration.
The percentage of citizens (43%) far exceeds the 8% of that same indicator from two years ago, according to the study, carried out by the Migration Policy Institute, the Organization of American States (OAS), the WFP and the Michigan Institute of Technology.
The Secretary General of the OAS noted that behind the exponential increase in migrants from those countries are violence, organized crime, unemployment, food insecurity and, more recently, the impact of climate change.
The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs and Special Envoy to the Northern Triangle of Central America, Ricardo Zúñiga, stated: “We are trying to provide more temporary work visas to all those who want to come to the United States. This could be an option for the entire region, and we could create some order and, with that, address the migration phenomenon we are currently facing.”.