have our neighbors to the south of us, all of this brutality with the gangs in mexico and south , whyca, i don't understand don't we help these people out instead of having them escape to the united states for asylum? why don't we remove some of these dictators that are causing problems in other countries? these are our neighbors. is an excellent question. the issue of addressing what we ofer to as the root causes the problems that people are facing is one that the u.s. government has dedicated for innate to. it is on the -- has dedicated foreign aid to. it is on the order of being dedicated to mexico, honduras, el salvador, and guatemala. it spreads out over several years. it is a substantial amount of money. it is true that we could be doing more to address what is, at this point, a systemic failure of those governments to protect their own people. , and i've heard experts testify, that a woman might be facing domestic violence from gang members in her village and they go to the police, but prosecutors don't have the resources to make sure --t that person who might be that the perpetr

have our neighbors to the south of us, all of this brutality with the gangs in mexico and south , whycai don't understand don't we help these people out instead of having them escape to the united states for asylum? why don't we remove some of these dictators that are causing problems in other countries? these are our neighbors. is an excellent question. the issue of addressing what we ofer to as the root causes the problems that people are facing is one that the u.s. government has dedicated for innate to. it is on the -- has dedicated foreign aid to. it is on the order of being dedicated to mexico, honduras, el salvador, and guatemala. it spreads out over several years. it is a substantial amount of money. it is true that we could be doing more to address what is, at this point, a systemic failure of those governments to protect their own people. , and i've heard experts testify, that a woman might be facing domestic violence from gang members in her village and they go to the police, but prosecutors don't have the resources to make sure --t that person who might be that the perpetrat