The article I chose is titled Exploring how and why so many migrants are crossing the southern border which I found PBS Thirteen News Hour. It talks about why the migrant crisis in the southern border of the United States began and what are the effects of this on the United States, Mexico, and the Latin American nations that the migrants come from. The article argues that even though most of the time when we hear about this migrant crisis we hear that this crisis is only taking place in the southern border but this article does not agree with this perception, they believe that the actual crisis is taking place in the nations where these migrants are coming from and that if we want to fix this crisis we need to pay attention to these foreign countries. This can be seen in the article where it states, “Americans must finally acknowledge that the real crisis is not at the border, but outside it, and that, until we address that crisis, this flow of vulnerable people seeking help at our doorstep will not end anytime soon”. Oftentimes when people talk about this migrant crisis they ask why are these countries suffering? And why does the United States have to intervene in order to solve these crises? The ironic thing is that these crises began in no small part as a result of the United States intervening in these countries. For example in Guatemala which is one of the main places that these migrants are coming from, The United Fruit Company went into this nation and began buying up all the most profitable land in this country and making the vast majority of the people in this nation dependent on them. They essentially invaded the nation without ever firing a shot and ruled for years. This can be seen in the textbook titled Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations in which it states, “Was the Guerrilla Army of the Poor (EGP) that Rigoberta joined, and whose version of events she gave us in 1982, an inevitable response by the poor to oppression? Should the conflict be understood primarily in social terms, as the inevitable outcome of centuries of oppression suffered by Guatemala’s indigenous population? Or is it better explained on the political level, as the result of particular decisions made by particular groups including the U.S. government, the Guatemalan oligarchy, the Guatemalan army, and the opposition groups that decided to fight back with guerrilla warfare” (303-304). As we can see from this quote due to the United States intervention via the The United Fruit Company that destabilized Guatemala many of these people were left with no choice but to either join a rebel group or to flee their nations and head to the United States in order to find better opportunities and a better life. So after analyzing this article we can see that in order to solve the migrant crisis south of the border we need to actually focus somewhere else which is the nations themselves in order fix this crisis.