Migration from Latin America to the United States has reached record levels, with more than 370,000 people intercepted at the US-Mexican border in December 2023 alone. Economic need, political repression and civil war were once the primary factors pushing flows of Latin American migrants northward. This has changed. Today, most are fleeing countries in the grip of criminal violence and state failure.
How Latin American migrants became a geopolitical weapon
Failed states and criminality are driving record numbers of people to the US border. The resulting crisis of polarization may be regional, but the response should be global, writes Christopher Sabatini.
