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Why is Latin America facing a migration crisis? How are different Latin…

- - - - Many migrants come to look for work in Chile
        
        Chile provided a series of measures of emergency assistance for migrants.
        
        New shelters to keep migrants off the street
        
        A center to provide migrants with health care
        
        A reception center to help those planning to transit to other parts of the country
        
        Stricter border control
        
        Many travelers make a stop at Colchane, a popular point for immigrants
        
        The journey through Colchane is long and treacherous at an altitude of about 12,000 feet.
        
        Many people have died trying to reach Chile through Colchane; the amount that are dying is only increasing
        
        Haitians (once the largest growing population in Chile) are coming to Chile in search of work
        
        Extremely harsh racism directed towards Haitians in the past years
        
        More and more Haitians are leaving for the U.S. border
        
        Government policies making obtaining a visa increasingly difficult
        
        Government policies making it difficult for migrants to work legally
    - - Vaccines are required to travel through borders
        
        Migrants are stuck in cities like Iquique because they don't have the vaccine that is required
        
        Many protests against migrants in cities like Iquique
  - - - Attracts many migrants coming from all over Latin America
    - - Between 2000 and 2017, Argentina pushed for immigration laws that made it easier for migrants to cross borders and get resident visas.
        
        This action was reversed and the government limited immigrant entry and facilitated deportation
        
        Argentina received harsh criticism by the UN
  - - - This causes political turmoil and a plummeting economy
        
        Hyperinflation, power cuts, shortage of food, water and essential medication, and political persecution
        
        More than five million Venezuelans have left their country
        
        First upper-class citizens who had the assets to move to other countries decided to leave Venezuela.
        
        Then lower-class citizens decided to leave because there was nothing left for them in Venezuela
        
        79% of Venezuelan immigrants have moved to other South American nations
- - - - a third of the population lives in poverty
  - - - Solution
        
        U.S. is planning to spend 200 million dollars to reduce poverty and to create jobs
    - - sometimes the rainy season doesn't give enough water to the crops that make up the food supply
    - - 200,000 people were dead or missing as a result of the civil war
    - - Solution
        
        Organizations such as the National Competitiveness Program are helping promote economic development
    - - Solution
        
        the government is beginning to offer rewards to people who turn in smugglers
        
        advertising campaigns warning people about the dangers of the trip
        
        The U.S. has started to crack down on illegal border crossings
  - - - political conflict made tourist stay away from Haiti which made it so Haiti couldn't grow economically
    - - Solution
        
        Organizations around the world donated medicine, food, and money
        
        Countries sent first responder to help rebuild Haiti
        
        Countries excused Haiti from paying back billions of dollars in loans
      - the earthquake caused the airport to not be available which made receiving help from other countries difficult