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DeFazio Calls For Funding To Help Countries Migrants Are Fleeing

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Instead of incarcerating refugee children from countries like Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, Oregon Democratic Representative Peter DeFazio says the U.S. should invest in those countries to reduce violence and poverty. 

DeFazio says he voted for a House bill last week that would have required the Homeland Security Department to improve the conditions for children detained at the U.S. border. He opposed the Senate bill which included more enforcement funding. DeFazio says the violence families are fleeing in Central America could be addressed with U.S. aid.

“There’s so many good things we could be doing to help lessen the problems than giving them more reasons to try to escape.”

DeFazio is raising money for the organization, Kids in Need of Defense, or KIND. It helps provide migrant children with legal resources. 

Rachael McDonald is KLCC’s former News Director. Rachael has a BA in English from the University of Oregon. She started out in public radio as a newsroom volunteer at KLCC in 2000. After reporting for the Northwest News Network and KAZU, Rachael returned to KLCC in 2007 as Morning Edition host and a general assignment reporter covering politics, the environment, education, and the arts. She was hired as KLCC News Director in 2018. Rachael departed KLCC in June, 2022.