Root Causes
Immigration from El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico has been a social issue because many people each year have been coming to the United States to live because of their home towns being attacked by the “violence of war”. In the article “Central American Immigrants in the United States”, Jie Zong and Jeanne Batalova, show a chart of how many Central Americans come to the United States each year.
Immigration is a social issue because many people in the areas of El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico have similar situations in their countries with poverty, violence, and with their own governments that do not pay attention to their people in their community; so many people decide to move to the U.S to work and not be involved with gangs and live around with people from the same culture as them.
There are three reasons why immigration existed in El Salvador, Honduras, and in Mexico, which are violence, corruption, and drugs in Central America and Mexico.