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Border Patrol agents get illegal immigrants to put their belongings into plastic bags before transporting them to a processing facility, in Hidalgo County, Texas, on May 26, 2017. Benjamin Chasteen/The Epoch Times
WASHINGTON—To help solve the illegal immigration crisis, the United States is working south of the border to curtail the drivers in Central America—namely poverty, high crime, and weak governance.
About half of Central America’s population—located in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—lives in poverty, according to State Department estimates.
