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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsState Department says US cutting off aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras
(CNN)The United States is cutting off aid to the Northern Triangle, otherwise known as the Central American countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, the State Department told CNN Saturday, one day after President Donald Trump said they had "set up" migrant caravans for entry into the United States.
"We were paying them tremendous amounts of money. And we're not paying them anymore. Because they haven't done a thing for us. They set up these caravans," Trump said Friday.
"At the Secretary's instruction, we are carrying out the President's direction and ending FY 2017 and FY 2018 foreign assistance programs for the Northern Triangle," a State Department spokesperson said. "We will be engaging Congress as part of this process."
On Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen signed what she called a "first of its kind" regional compact agreement with the Northern Triangle countries aimed at preventing irregular migration, combating criminal organizations and ultimately helping with US border security.
"We were paying them tremendous amounts of money. And we're not paying them anymore. Because they haven't done a thing for us. They set up these caravans," Trump said Friday.
"At the Secretary's instruction, we are carrying out the President's direction and ending FY 2017 and FY 2018 foreign assistance programs for the Northern Triangle," a State Department spokesperson said. "We will be engaging Congress as part of this process."
On Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen signed what she called a "first of its kind" regional compact agreement with the Northern Triangle countries aimed at preventing irregular migration, combating criminal organizations and ultimately helping with US border security.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/30/politics/state-department-aid-el-slavador-guatemala-honduras/index.html
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State Department says US cutting off aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras (Original Post)
spanone
Mar 2019
OP
if you read down, experts say it will increase people leaving those countries....
spanone
Mar 2019
#3
You can always count on this administration to implement the worst possible solution to any problem.
LonePirate
Mar 2019
#5
they do love causing brown people excruciating pain, as in stealing their children.
spanone
Mar 2019
#10
Will make "Border Crisis" worse, by design, so Trump can point at rising refugee numbers.
Midnight Writer
Mar 2019
#6
$650M per year saved,another round of tax cuts for the rich coming up............
Bengus81
Mar 2019
#11
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)1. How THE FUCK does that help anyone??
spanone
(135,844 posts)3. if you read down, experts say it will increase people leaving those countries....
But experts have said cutting off aid is likely to increase the number of migrants leaving the countries and heading for the United States.
LonePirate
(13,424 posts)5. You can always count on this administration to implement the worst possible solution to any problem.
Incompetence and sadism rolled into one.
spanone
(135,844 posts)10. they do love causing brown people excruciating pain, as in stealing their children.
exboyfil
(17,863 posts)2. We send $3B to Israel
while we send $181M to Honduras. The two countries are near equivalent in population. Of course Israel has a better social safety net than the US.
Takket
(21,575 posts)4. great. now conditions will deteriorate even further...
and even more people will migrate here. how does that help solve our border "crisis"???
Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)6. Will make "Border Crisis" worse, by design, so Trump can point at rising refugee numbers.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)7. That is absolutely the plan behind this. He is bound and determined
"Promises made, promises kept" to fulfill all the crap he spewed at his adoring toothless masses. Now that he thinks he is "cleared" from the Mueller investigation and thinks that the court doing away with ACA is a given he's off to fulfill his "promise" about the wall.
spanone
(135,844 posts)9. yep. it will make 'his' crisis
dhill926
(16,340 posts)8. Genius move...
fucking assholes...
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)11. $650M per year saved,another round of tax cuts for the rich coming up............