"There is only one thing about the Irish famine that now seems truly anachronistic—millions of refugees were saved because other countries took them in. That, at least, would not happen now."
Canada alone approved over a million applications from Ukraine, numbers that have actually come are more in the 300,000 range.
Google's automated result on "irish immigration to america during the potato famine" suggests ~1.5 million Irish folks resettled in America during the famine, though the first source I checked[1] claimed ~2M. No automated google result came back for "total latin american immigration to america 2015-2025", but this article[2] claims that the immigrant latin american population was ~2.73M in 2010 and ~3.91M in 2020, an increase of 1.2M people over 12 years. That feels like it could be low, so a second check over on Wikipedia[3] claims that total immigration from "the americas", including Canada, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, etc., totaled ~4.22 M from 2012-2022, the most recently included year. Technically that is more in absolute numbers, if you also stretch the definition of Latin America, I guess?
So, what the heck are you talking about? Can you back those claims up?
1 - https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Folklife-Co...
2 - https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/south-american-immig...
3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_d...
A certain large country to the north had a policy of destabilizing economic, covert action and direct military action in place to save these nations from the horrors of socialism.
When you build empire, there’s always a pull of your subjects to the center.
Sometimes it spills over. The domination of Chile transitioned from pulling the levers of banking and capital access to a full on CIA sponsored coup, followed by the Pinochet experience. NAFTA was great for the top-line numbers for the US and Canada, but nuked the Mexican agricultural economy. (Repeating what we did within the US)
Critical thinking is a good thing. When you read about people packing up their family and meager belongings to walk through hostile Mexico, to then pay a gangster to smuggle you across the Sonora, so you can work some menial labor job in the US… the question “why?” should come to mind.
Let's not argue semantics here: The fact that latin american countries did not turn into Puerto Rico does not mean the imperialist action was not executed.