Joaquin Castro: “The gentleman mentioned the Northern Triangle countries of Central America. Especially over the last few years…”

“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.”