To really address the root causes of migration will take years, if not a decade, to actually address everything that we're seeing.

Ariel Ruiz

It's important not just to talk about the cost, but also to talk about the potential and opportunity that are being siphoned away.

Everything we have seen suggests the migrant caravans were loosely organized and largely spontaneous in nature, and were not organized or directed by the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala or Honduras.