Mr. CASTRO of Texas. The gentleman mentioned the Northern Triangle
countries of Central America. Especially over the last few years,
thousands of women and children who are fleeing very desperate
situations there, not only extreme poverty, but the threats of violence
by drug gangs, for example, have come to the Texas-Mexico border
seeking asylum. Congress did, over the last few years, essentially, pass assistance
for these nations. And we understood that, look, if you allocate $600
million to three countries, that is not going to solve all of their
problems. Nobody is under that illusion. But it can go a long way in
being the seed funds to start to turn these things around and these
nations around.
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