Commentary
The interests of our Latin American friends (and enemies) are not the same as ours when it comes to immigration. They want to get foreign migrants out of their territories while making money. They also want their own access to the U.S. labor market—for example, Mexicans working in the United States sent back $55 billion in 2022, and remittances from the United States are 19 percent of Guatemala’s gross domestic product (GDP), 28 percent of Honduras’s GDP, and 26 percent of El Salvador’s GDP.
