Former Senator Tom Daschle contributed an op-ed piece to the Miami Herald that has some very sane policy recommendations for the United States in Latin America. Among them 1) accept the election of leaders whose beliefs do not match our own, provided those leaders accept the rules of the democratic road, and 2) make it cheaper and safer to remit money from the United States, even if that means regulating wire-sending operations, and 3) reform our immigration laws so that hard-working and law-abiding immigrants from Latin America can earn the opportunity to become U.S. citizens. Shame on South Dakotans for booting Daschle from office in 2004, only to elect this man, who somehow managed to misspell the word 'borders' on this page of his website (third line).latin america, tom daschle, immigration, senate, john thune
I think one of the most important proposals by Daschle was to "Work together with our Central American friends to fight transnational gangs that threaten not just their countries but the United States as well." Currently, these gangs pose one of the strongest challenges to the viability of the nation-state in Latin America. Further, their penchant for destabilizing the region scares away potential investors and attracts investment only from the verious drug cartels who use them as middle men into the US. In so doing, preventing the rise of the economic connectivity needed to bring Latin American countries from the Gap to the Core of globalization.
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