I live in Guatemala and I were throughout Latin America.

And I want to speak to the millions of fortunate Hispanic immigrants living in the United States,

legally or not.

I have a question for you.

Why do you support the same policies in the U.S. that cause you to flee your home country?

The policies I'm talking about are those that lead to a bigger and bigger central government.

You know only too well that the more power the government has, the more corrupt it becomes.

My home country, like most other nations in Central and South America, is very poor.

54% of the population lives in poverty and 13% live in extreme poverty.

Half of all children under 5 are chronically malnourished.

Creepling government corruption is the norm.

Opening a new business can take months, even years, because of a multitude of regulations

that are designed to line the pockets of bureaucrats.

So the cost is much too high for the other citizen.

Quite simply, unless you're politically connected in Guatemala, you probably want to leave.

And in the last 20 years, many Guatemalans have left.

Or to put it more honestly, they fled.

The fortunate ones reached the United States, the freest and wealthiest nation in human history.

There are at least one million Guatemalans living in the U.S.

Nearly every Mexican and Central and South American immigrant in the United States,

whether they immigrated legally or illegally, move or fled to the U.S.

for the same reasons.

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