Already Strained Cities are Struggling to Support Arriving Migrants

Many Central American migrants are fleeing violence and poverty in their home countries. In Honduras, the <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/05/20/homicide-murder-violence-united-states-latin-america-caribbean/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">homicide rate</a> is one of the highest in the world (41.2 per 100,000 in 20201). And in <a href="https://borgenproject.org/5-facts-about-poverty-in-el-salvador/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">El Salvador</a>, nearly a quarter of the population lives in poverty. It is not just violence and poverty that are driving Central Americans to migrate. <a href="https://www.paho.org/en/news/30-11-2021-new-report-hunger-latin-america-and-caribbean-rose-138-million-people-just-one-year" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">According to the UN</a>, the prevalence of hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean is 9.1% — a 15 year high. In an story for the <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz/2022/9/22/23355672/chicago-illinois-immigration-venezuela-suburbs-migration-hugo-chavez-buses-texas-border" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Chicago Sun Times</a> Lourdes Gouveia, a professor emeritus of the University of Nebraska at Omaha noted: <a href="https://timothywlittle.medium.com/already-strained-cities-are-struggling-to-support-arriving-migrants-74bc6ba84116">Learn More</a>