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Going to the US is too expensive for many who aren’y in neighboring countries. It’s also hard to get around.
It might just be that YOY growth without a rolling average is always going swing wildly when a country has a lot of negative news cycles in a year and then goes relatively quiet.
The US has been looking pretty bad, pretty consistently, for a long time now.