Remember the Peace Corps?? Founded in 1961 that Federally funded program now costs taxpayers $350 million a year.
Volunteers and paid federal employees (with a union and benefits) have apparently been impotent in those countries from which thousands of illegals flee for the US.
Is it time (50+ years) to accept that the program has been a failure in all of the places we have spent labor, effort and money???? None of the people we supposedly ‘helped’ appear to have risen politically or materially to a level of improving their own nations’ governance or to have embraced the ‘friendship’ of the USA.
jmho
“Volunteers” should be in scare quotes