section_path: Political views/Emigration
section_name: Emigration
paragraph_text: Emigration
  
  In an interview with VICE News ' Krishna Andavolu shortly after Bukele's inauguration, he said that he "share the same concern President Trump immigration, but for different reasons doesn't want our people to go; I don't want our people to leave." In a 2021 interview on Fox News ' Tucker Carlson Tonight, Bukele attributed mass emigration from Central America to the United States to the region's "lack of economic opportunity" and "lack of security" and described the level of emigration to the United States as "immoral". He argued that emigration strained the United States and impeded domestic efforts to improve living conditions in El Salvador.
  
  In an interview with VICE News ' Krishna Andavolu shortly after Bukele's inauguration, he said that he "share the same concern President Trump immigration, but for different reasons doesn't want our people to go; I don't want our people to leave." In a 2021 interview on Fox News ' Tucker Carlson Tonight, Bukele attributed mass emigration from Central America to the United States to the region's "lack of economic opportunity" and "lack of security" and described the level of emigration to the United States as "immoral". He argued that emigration strained the United States and impeded domestic efforts to improve living conditions in El Salvador.