How Politics Are Shifting Migration in Central America
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Ariel G. Ruiz Soto, policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, and Jody García, reporter at Plaza Pública, contributor to The New York Times, break down how recent political turmoil and a crackdown on gangs has impacted would-be migrants from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to take a cue from one of our callers for a segment now as we like to do. |
| 0:14.6 | If you were listening at the end of yesterday's show, we had one of our call-ins for immigrants |
| 0:19.3 | from anywhere to mention a new story from your country of origin that other listeners might |
| 0:24.8 | find interesting or important. |
| 0:26.9 | And our very last call right at the end of the show was Carlos in Courtland, New York, |
| 0:32.8 | who grew up in El Salvador. |
| 0:35.6 | Last year I was there and it was the first time that I was able to walk around the streets, |
| 0:41.3 | go for a walk without fear for my literal life. |
| 0:45.2 | And you know, in Salvadorians nowadays support this president. |
| 0:48.3 | Now I don't support him blindly, but Salvadorians do support him because you know they feel |
| 0:54.3 | safe. |
| 0:55.8 | So El Salvador, one of the main countries sending migrants to this country in the surge |
| 1:01.2 | of recent years because people felt so unsafe, is no longer at the top of the list of |
| 1:06.3 | countries in our hemisphere from which people are arriving here, right? |
| 1:10.4 | It's been in the news, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Haiti, Cuba, no longer El Salvador at least |
| 1:16.0 | for the moment. |
| 1:17.0 | And notice that Carlos mentioned the president of El Salvador who has made a point of saying |
| 1:22.8 | who the caller made a point of saying he doesn't support blindly because Carlos also mentioned |
| 1:28.8 | the trade-off that he says dominates the coverage of El Salvador in the U.S. press. |
| 1:35.8 | A lot of what I hear from the Democrats for the most part, you know, it's bullies, you |
| 1:43.6 | know people that have no rights that are being incarcerated, you know, in that you're violating |
| 1:50.8 | human rights and whatnot. |
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