Myanmar and Bangladesh has agreed to cooperate on the repatriation of Rohingya refugees and took steps to boost border security as relations between the neighbors have been strained by the continuing flow of refugees into Bangladesh. Meanwhile, the US State Department is considering formally declaring the crackdown on Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims to be ethnic cleansing as lawmakers called for sanctions against the Southeast Asian country’s military, Reuters reports. The Trump administration moved toward a condemnation of “ethnic cleansing” against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, as officials were preparing a recommendation for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to unequivocally use the term for the first time.