Push and Pull Factors

• Barriers that make reaching a destination more difficult:
  • Economic: Lack of funds to reach destination.
  • Social:
    • Marriage to someone along the migration route, leading to settlement
    • Can’t abandon the boys of course
  • Political: Inability to obtain a visa.
    • check the visa map
    • Court date for residency is 15 years out because the illegals that don’t show up clog the system
  • Environmental: Inability to cross a sea, desert, or mountain range.
    • Cuba: Just come to the US but we ain’t helping you