The big business of migrants

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Venezuelan migrants wait to obtain a request for refuge at the Peruvian border post at the binational border service center (CEBAF) in Tumbes, in June 2019. (Credit: CRIS BOURONCLE / AFP / Getty Images).

Editor's note: David Bittan Obadía, is a writer lawyer, political and international issues analyst, columnist for the newspaper El Universal de Venezuela and a contributor to other media. He has participated in the World Jewish Congress and is former president of the Jewish community of Venezuela.

(CNN Spanish) - Wars, persecutions, economic crises, as well as new dictatorships are producing millions of emigrants, displaced persons and refugees. The figures are alarming. UNHCR notes: "At the end of 2018, 70.8 million people were displaced due to persecution, conflicts, violence or human rights violations."

Behind the tragedy there are a number of economic and geopolitical interests from which countries, institutions, companies and people seem to take advantage; This has become a real business. Today, migrations are used by countries as an exchange card, to obtain dividends, which is outrageous. As the Turkish government said it suspended the migrant readmission agreement reached with the European Union in 2016, in response to the sanctions issued by Brussels against Ankara for its gas farms in Cyprus.

It is shameful the silence in these matters by multilateral organizations such as the UN or the OAS that continue to lose force only by issuing resolutions that end up remaining on their web pages.

Unplanned migrations can destabilize regions. Lifting walls and hardening the migratory processes are hot water cloths; This encourages coyotes and criminals.

Athletes and celebrities pose for selfies on the boats that take refugees and thus sell their "solidarity." I wonder: why don't they make a true gesture of humanity, adopting in their homes a few who are on board the boats?

Civilized countries should stop to give priority, for their own good, to this problem. The only way to solve it is to generate living conditions and democracy in the places of origin of the migrants.

The Arab world, for example, must be required to absorb its peers and not push them towards Europe or Latin America, as they do not end up adapting.

For their part, migrant aid associations have become, in order to survive, mere companies that seem to benefit from migration by receiving significant amounts for their mission.

An uncontrolled migration awakens today exacerbated feelings of nationalism which could easily end in massacres that could be the trigger for a new and modern world war.

Poor those who "fleeing from famine, disease, corrupt governments and dictators, leave a land in oblivion."

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