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Whereas conflicts across the world have resulted in millions 
of displaced people; 
Whereas reportedly 90 percent of the firearms recovered from 
crime scenes in Haiti, 70 percent of the traced firearms 
recovered in Mexico, and 75 percent of the firearms re-
covered in the Dominican Republic originated from the 
United States; 
Whereas the United States has too often provided security 
assistance, including defense articles and services, to 
human rights-abusing governments in Latin America and 
elsewhere, contributing to political repression and insta-
bility that worsens forced migration and displacement; 
and 
Whereas a consistent lack of high-level United States atten-
tion to conflicts on the African continent enables humani-
tarian crises to persist: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that the United States must— 
(1) address United States policies contributing 
to forced migration and displacement, including 
by— 
(A) overhauling United States broad-based 
sanction policy to ensure sanctions are not in-
creasing economic inequality, poverty, and 
forced migration; 
(B) making adequate economic and hu-
manitarian investments in developing countries 
to address income inequality and ensuring those 
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investments improve the livelihoods of everyday 
people, allowing them to stay in their homes; 
(C) promoting good governance, economic 
investment, and humanitarian assistance in de-
veloping countries to increase stability and cre-
ate opportunity, enabling people to pursue live-
lihoods at home; 
(D) advancing international aid reforms 
that support the localization of aid and 
strengthen local agricultural sectors; 
(E) improving the standard of living of ev-
eryday people in developing countries by pur-
suing trade policies that prioritize the needs 
and well-being of workers and reviewing exist-
ing trade and investment agreements to bring 
them in line with these priorities, including 
by— 
(i) building upon the rapid response 
mechanism (RRM) in the United States- 
Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and 
building upon the RRM in other existing 
or future trade deals to ensure robust en-
forcement of labor, environment, and 
human rights standards in trade agree-
ments; and 
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(ii) working to eliminate extreme in-
vestor rights and harmful Investor-State 
Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanisms 
from existing trade and investment agree-
ments in the region; 
(F) using the United States voice and vote 
at International Monetary Fund, World Bank, 
and Inter American Development Bank to cre-
ate a more inclusive international financial sys-
tem that empowers developing countries, ad-
dresses the global debt crisis, eliminates sur-
charges, and refrains from implementing policy 
actions that are shown to increase inequality 
and drive displacement; 
(G) supporting international climate fi-
nance mechanisms, including a new issuance of 
Special Drawing Rights and robust investments 
in the Green Climate Fund, Loss and Damage 
Fund, and Amazon Fund to help developing 
countries transition away from fossil fuels, 
build resilience to climate change, and deal with 
the effects of climate change, reducing climate- 
induced migration; 
(H) reducing arms trafficking and the 
flooding of weapons into Haiti, Mexico, and the 
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region by strengthening United States gun 
laws, controlling the scale and end users of 
United States-exported firearms, and banning 
assault rifles; 
(I) applying Leahy Law, Arms Export 
Control Act, and Foreign Assistance Act prin-
ciples and criteria to the sale of origin defense 
articles and services; 
(J) monitoring recipients’ use of origin de-
fense articles and services to harm civilians and 
contribute to violations of international humani-
tarian law and international human rights law; 
(K) supporting efforts to broker peace in 
the region, including Colombia peace processes; 
and 
(L) increasing interagency attention and 
resources to United States engagement in devel-
oping countries, including sustained high-level 
diplomacy to help bring an end to conflicts that 
are the primary drivers of forced displacement; 
(2) ensure a humane and sustainable immigra-
tion system that appropriately addresses the root 
causes driving migration including by— 
(A) expanding appropriate legal pathways 
for migration, creating additional pathways for 
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migration, and modernizing the legal immigra-
tion system to meet 21st century needs; 
(B) ensuring access to immigration bene-
fits, including asylum and refugee processing, 
by providing sufficient funding to process bene-
fits, including at Safe Mobility Offices, and 
clearing visa backlogs; 
(C) lifting the current 180-day waiting 
time for work authorization for individuals who 
apply for asylum; 
(D) guarantying legal representation to 
asylum seekers and individuals facing deporta-
tion; 
(E) utilizing humane community-based al-
ternatives to detention, dramatically reducing 
our reliance on detention, and ending the crim-
inalization of immigrants; and 
(F) creating a central process to give 
wrongfully and unjustly deported people with 
ties to the United States a meaningful chance 
to present a case to return to the United States 
and reunite with loved ones; and 
(3) provide immigrants living in the United 
States with a roadmap to citizenship. 
Æ 
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