Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Rae, it's a pleasure to have you with us today.
In your opening remarks, you mentioned human beings. As you said, we're not just talking about numbers today. We are talking about real people. I also want to emphasize that.
If you don't mind, I'd like to look a little more closely at the migration route from South America, often starting in Brazil, then going through Colombia, Venezuela and the Central American Isthmus, to the United States, and sometimes as far as Canada.
Based on your experience and the information available to you, do the transitional countries through which migrants pass facilitate their migration to their new host country, or at least the one they hope to get to?