And it is clear that their claims to be running away from crime, are bullshit, when they travel hundreds of extra miles more, bypassing countries with lower homicide crime rates than the USA (6.38 per 100K).
(ex. the French island of Martinique (2.78 homicides/100K). Or the Dutch island of Aruba (1.93). Even Nicaragua with 7.37, is a lot better than the 56.52 of Honduras, or the 82.84 of El Salvador.
Same with Panama (9.67), or Costa Rica (11.90), and certainly TurksCaicos (5.93), Cuba (4.99), and Guadaloupe (8.01).
They could have gone there, with less distance to travel, and not be up against a language barrier.
The answer is economic opportunity. The US may be farther away than some of these other countries, but it is vastly better for people to advance themselves economically.(and benefit from welfare goodies enticed to them by Democrat NGOs).