| US as a good neighbor to Central America Posted: 13 Jun 2017 10:58 AM PDT ![US as a good neighbor to Central America]( "US as a good neighbor to Central America") For several decades, the United States has found it easy to answer the biblical question "Who is my neighbor?" Recent presidents have offered money, trade, and advice to three impoverished nations of Central America – Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. In Congress, a bipartisan consensus still supports spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to address the root causes of these problems by creating economic opportunity and rule of law in Central America. "The idea of us coming alongside Central Americans themselves to try to improve their own conditions, their own democracy, or their own markets I think is an important use of the United States' political will," says Sen. James Lankford (R) of Oklahoma.
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| Why, in Tijuana, a 'different kind of migrant' elicits help Posted: 13 Jun 2017 06:00 AM PDT ![Why, in Tijuana, a 'different kind of migrant' elicits help]( "Why, in Tijuana, a 'different kind of migrant' elicits help") Each week, Tijuana receives thousands of people fleeing violence or seeking opportunity, including Mexican deportees, Central American migrants, and refugees from around the globe. Many residents have grown accustomed to the long-term challenges that come with Tijuana's transitional nature, like deportees living in canals along the border, or migrants being recruited into criminal gangs.
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