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It is not America's responsibility to fix all the world's problems. We have enough or our own that we can't fix.
We caused, indirectly or even directly, many of the causes that people are trying flee from in their home countries in Latin america.
The vast majority of them are trying to flee gang violence.
If we weren't actively fucking with other countries, I might agree with you. But we do that to keep prices down, and this is the consequence.
Then how about direct self-interest? If it reduces illegal immigration, at the source, for “cheaper” (and less human suffering), why wouldn’t we?
Obviously there’s also a bad history of intervention but if this focuses on helping the economies of some of these countries, such as by encouraging more trade, we’ll get a lot farther. Everyone will profit, and those heading north for economic reasons will no longer have that incentive