The president of El Salvador said the Trump administration is tackling migration the 'wrong way'
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has said that the Trump administration should not try to block people from entering the U.S because that approach does not work.of Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his 23-month-old daughter Valeria, who died after trying to cross the Rio Grande River into the U.S.
The 37-year-old Bukele said he would work to provide more opportunities for El Salvadoreans so they would not need to seek a better life in the U.S. According to the BBC, one in 10 people in the Central American country have no access to drinking water, one-third live below the national poverty line, and in 2015, it had the world's highest murder rate."They are approaching this in the wrong way. History has shown that this will not stop migration. But the things that we're trying to do here, that may stop forceful migration. We agree on what we want to do but for different reasons.
"We are trying to make our country safe. Most of the people who are fleeing…don't feel safe…so we want to make our country safer and we will work really hard," he told Sky News.
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