“”””The Biden administration has pledged $310 million in humanitarian aid to the region and has a $4 billion plan to boost development there. Administration officials have also said that Harris is likely to discuss more stringent anti-corruption measures with Giammattei.
But the United States has crafted aid programs in Guatemala for years with the goal of deterring migration. There were efforts to help coffee farmers improve their yields and forestry management programs. There were vocational schools pointedly called Stay Here Centers.
Through it all, the flow of migrants continued unabated.
Since 2019, about 400,000 Guatemalans have been apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border — more than 2 percent of the country’s population.”””
I contemplate sadness alone as my own ability to honor and have one lasting memory of 1 support of my fathers Vietnam Combat service 66-68 was denied without even a concept of Humanitarian Waiver in the Interest of Justice.
As I contemplate death and suicide hospitals that one might see when their own people deny them benefit of a father who served in the infantry in Vietnam based on a statute of limitations that expired that never took into account a Vietnam Infantry Soldiers experience 66-68 and the 30 plus year gap in VA support that includes DEA to his Son.
That does not even contemplate his own sons experiences in the Navy that left him attempting to transfer into the Army but was medically dq in 1998.
My father was not there.
I wonder if you can see to it that I can go to school and honor my father and develop my life and get a personal student counselor to help out.
When I talk of things that you don't believe are real well then I try to make sense of this