[When Trump won 1/3 of the Hispanic vote, it became clear that many of these people wanted real opportunity - not just the scraps they’d already been fed in their homelands. Shipping them here and setting them up on the dole next to our black urban underclass is hardly “the American Dream”.]
The problem is in Latin America is rampant drug and gang crime, which was not a problem before 80’s and 90’s there, somehow became a huge problem and never went away. We saw, through the crack wars that peaked in the early 90’s, only a smidgen of what they have to deal with constantly.
Guillermo Del Toro, who did the Hellboy movies, moved his extended family stateside because his car dealer dad was kidnapped in Guadelajara.
That’s right; in many of these socialist/leftist dumps, there are educated people with few opportunities - a big problem especially in populous former British colonies (Nigeria, India, Ireland, for examples). Education remained intact after independence while the economy didn’t keep pace, so their educated populations often have to look elsewhere for work.
In some cases it is hastened by conflict with the US; in Venezuela they ended up with lots of oil professionals without work (some created small clusters in Canada working in the oil industry - what a change of climate!).