When poor and uneducated immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, and similar Central American countries are arrested in the United States, the governments of El Salvador and Guatemala do not intervene on their behalf.
This is likely because the governments of El Salvador and Guatemala are closely aligned with the United States and therefore do not advocate effectively for their citizens.
By contrast, when undocumented Korean immigrants are arrested, officials from the government of South Korea, including sometimes the South Korean foreign minister, will intervene to investigate.
This advocacy from South Korea shows a different approach compared to countries like El Salvador.
This difference in advocacy and US influence highlights my main argument: the level of US influence over a country’s government may affect both how that government advocates for its citizens arrested in the US and the patterns of undocumented immigration.
Would reduced US influence lead to different outcomes for undocumented immigrants from those countries?
Similar issues are not observed with undocumented immigrants from countries such as Norway, Finland, or Denmark in the US.
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