This will assure more people flee those countries.

The bigger the crisis, the more he can rile up the base in 2020.

He wants more people fleeing to our country so he can use it for political gain, and like you say rile up his base.

by withholding aid will exacerbate the causes of migrants going North. Maybe that's what Trump wants---no crisis less support for a dumb wall?

At that rate, the $370M cut in Central American aid for 2018 will just about pay for his hobby by the end of his second term (God forbid!). Hey, sacrifices have to be made.

Totally republican. Totally unChristian.

Local police and emergency services lack sufficient resources to respond effectively to serious crime.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/honduras-travel-advisory.html

All that's going to do is make more people leave. I read somewhere that the police often don't have gas to get to crime scenes.

to keep the turmoil high in those countries and keep the flow of refugees high so as to fuel the whole immigration crisis BS at out border that the Republicans need to keep the fear level high and thus get more votes for their anti-immigration candidates in 2020.
They're using human misery as a tool in their election campaign.

This is not only inhumane, but both un-christian and un-american.

Patrick Phillips

that most all of that money doesn't wind up in the hands of drug lords and/or corrupt politicians?

what foreign aid is, what it does and what it achieves.

It goes on some very shady things, such as easing the way for US companies going in to mine or drill, but you'd be surprised how much foreign aid goes to the states. Some fairly directly - like foreign aid to a country that wants to buy armaments, jet fighters etc. The foreign aid money goes to Boeing/Lockeheed/whoever, that country is now tied in with buying parts snd systems from that manufacturer, - the "aid" is also given in the form of a loan, putting that country in debt and making it beholden to the USA - should they try and use them against an ally of the US, they'll find they can't get parts for them.

Another typical way of gaming the system are "projects" - an American company - maybe with friends in the White House gets greenlghted to pay a hydro-electic dam in a "less developed" country that is desperately in need of some infrastructure, the US company builds an expensive dam and pockets the money - the labor is local, so cheap if not free. The country is then on the hook to repay the loan, as well as may the US company for parts and expensive maintenance contracts. The US company states that it was an overseas project, and thus dodges taxes.

in many cases, a dictator or military in those countries may require bribes and so prices tend to get inflated to cover for it. A country may end up with a five million dollar dam, that cost 2.5 to build, costs a million a year to maintain, and is only built to act for ten years, then they pay interest and a small country can very quickly find itself in massive debt.

Foreign aid can - and does - some very good things, but what Trump seems to be missing, is that a lot of his donors actually rely on the dirtier side of "foreign aid" to keep their profits flowing.