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Capital Has No Borders—Why Should We?
Elia Velásquez fled the violence and poverty that plagued her native El Salvador in the 1990s. “I saw how my family was suffering, so I said to myself, ‘If I leave, I can work and help them,’ ” the 55-year-old hotel worker in Washington, D.C, tells In …