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I appreciate the participants in this conversation. I also believe that the U.S. and Latin American governments need to do more to encourage people to stay in their countries of origin. I don't imagine anyone enjoys having to leave their families, hometowns, and ways of life to undergo a journey that might end in despair, permanent separation from family, and perhaps incarceration or deportation. My question then: what can the U.S. and Mexico governments do to make Latin Americans want to and moreso BE ABLE TO stay in Latin America with family?

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I hear a lot of republican and democrat hopefuls saying how much they'll help rural Oregon. Yet, I rarely, if ever, actually hear any SPECIFIC POLICIES on how they will help. Will Kurt Schrader for instance allow sustainable logging, commercial fishing, and support farmers who are struggling in eastern Oregon? Hard-line environmentalists have shut this state down and rural Oregonians are simply being starved out of this state.

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