Video: The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton
Eight minutes into the following video, Hilton shows a video clip of the 7,000-person migration invasion "caravan" from Honduras heading towards America. Then he presented a clip in which LA Mayor Eric Garcetti says, "Fundamentally, what this administration doesn't get... They don't know how to solve the problem. Investing, for instance, in stabilizing the economies in Central America. It's a great way to cut off the supply. They think a wall will keep people out, when they don't go to the root of the problem."
Ann Coulter responds
I've heard a lot of Democrats say… 'Well, first we just have to solve all these countries' problems.' No, that's precisely why we don't want these countries coming here. Compared to your [Steve Hilton's] relatives escaping communist Hungary, we don't have a Holocaust going on right now. We don't have a Soviet Union. There'ss not a potato famine [as in Ireland when the potato crop died in 1845-1852]. In each one of those cases, you're talking some unusual circumstance. You were subject to Communism. Adolf Hitler rose up.
"This [referring to Central American poverty] is how these people live ALL the time. We're not going to correct a thousand of years of culture. And, yes, we wish them luck. We want to help them. But to say that we have to change cultures that had been around for a thousand years. They've always been heavily corrupt, heavily poor. It's not going to happen. You might as well say, 'First, we have to colonize Mars. Then we can build a wall.'"
CAIRCO Notes
Why are Central American countries living in a constant state of poverty?
Leon Kolankiewicz presents the fundamental reason in the October 23, 2018 article: As The Caravan Cometh - What are the pols and pundits not telling us?:
But there is another major push factor for mass emigration from Central America which is never acknowledged by the politically correct mainstream media or the preening pundits who pontificate on this issue: rapid population growth (aka overpopulation).
Rapid population growth has been aided and abetted in Central America across the decades by the Vatican, which has dogmatically and tenaciously opposed family planning, birth control and contraception at every turn in these Catholic-dominant countries.
I served three years (1985-1988) as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras and I married a Honduran, which has kept me connected to that country for the past three decades. The population explosion was already in mid-detonation when I lived there three decades ago. At that time Honduras had an average total fertility rate (TFR) of about 7 (births per female across her reproductive years). The annual rate of increase of its population was 3 to 3.5%, with a doubling time of just 20 to 23 years.
Responding to these underlying demographic trends, the population of Honduras has quadrupled in the last half century (see graph).
Overpopulation is a key factor in perpetuating mass poverty in Central America, resulting in the predictable mass migration to more stable countries such as the United States. American women voluntarily reached replacement level fertility (2.1 children per woman) in 1972. Yet ironically Congress is forcing U.S. population to double within the lifetimes of children born today because of mass immigration.
In Central America, population momentum will cause its population to grow for decades after replacement level fertility is reached.