Our security stake was so high that It warranted us committing forces. We paid a price in blood because of our assessment of the national security interest to the United States of America of those two relatively small neighbor countries. The United States has a stake in this issue because of refugees. We have had an enormous tide of refugees come across the Rio Grande. across the Caribbean. and across the Gulf of Mexico. because of this grinding poverty. If you lived in a country like Guatemala. which is one of the largest countries in the region. with a population of over 8 million people and an 18percent decline in your per capita income since 1981. you might figure that there is a better place for you as well. that individual. that peasant who comes from Guatemala to Mexico and then to Texas. New Mexico. and Arizona. and elsewhere in the country.
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