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Title: U.S. ending aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras over migrants
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News Trust
URL Source: http://news.trust.org/item/20190330195340-c3vlh
Published: Mar 31, 2019
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2019-03-31 08:27:29 by IbJensen
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Views: 733
Comments: 6
Trump has claimed that the countries had "set up" caravans of migrants in order to export them into the United States
The United States is cutting off aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, known collectively as the "Northern Triangle," the State Department said on Saturday, a day after President Donald Trump blasted the Central American countries for sending migrants to the United States.
"We are carrying out the President's direction and ending FY (fiscal year) 2017 and FY 2018 foreign assistance programs for the Northern Triangle," a State Department spokesperson said in a statement. The department declined to provide further details.
The State Department said it would "engage Congress in the process," an apparent acknowledgement that it will need lawmakers' approval to end the funding.
A U.S. House Appropriations Committee aide estimated that around $700 million of aid was affected.
Democratic Representative Nita Lowey, who chairs the committee, tweeted that the move to cut aid was "immoral and more likely to deteriorate conditions that push people into the kind of poverty and despair that exacerbates migration."
New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called Trump's order a "reckless announcement" and urged Democrats and Republicans alike to reject it.
"U.S. foreign assistance is not charity; it advances our strategic interests and funds initiatives that protect American citizens," Menendez said in a statement.
Trump claimed on Friday during a trip to Florida that the countries had "set up" caravans of migrants in order to export them into the United States. A surge of asylum seekers from the three countries have sought to enter the United States across its southern border in recent days.
"We were giving them $500 million. We were paying them tremendous amounts of money, and we're not paying them anymore because they haven't done a thing for us," Trump said.
Trump also threatened on Friday to close the U.S. border with Mexico next week if Mexico does not stop immigrants from reaching the United States, a move that could disrupt millions of legal border crossings and billions of dollars in trade. (Reporting by Julia Harte and Richard Cowan Editing by Mary Milliken, James Dalgleish and Richard Chang)
Poster Comment:
Long past due! Stop all aid to Mexico and leave our borders closed indefinitely.
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I see BB didn't include Mexico. Trump said he would cut aid and close the border unless Mexico gets it's southern border under control. He wants their troops to cut the flow off at their choke point. Breitbart is comped. Andrew must be rolling over in his grave.
#2. To: WWG1WWA (#1)
While he's at it cut off all foreign aid and chop 75% of the central government. Get them out of everything save defense.
Liberals are like Slinkys. They're good for nothing, but somehow they bring a smile to your face as you shove them down the stairs.
#3. To: IbJensen (#0)
U.S. ending aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras over migrants
Well, with fewer residents they don't need it.
#4. To: IbJensen (#0)
The State Department said it would "engage Congress in the process," an apparent acknowledgement that it will need lawmakers' approval to end the funding.
Meaning it will never get past the House.
It's now immoral to NOT give taxpayer money way.
#5. To: WWG1WWA, NWO aid safe, forever wars, Javanka, Trotsky (#1)
Globalist Neocon Trump administration bible
They're not ever cutting off aid to Israel, Saudi Arabia & their many terrorist allies around the world.
Empire first.
#6. To: Pinguinite (#4)
There will be a serious confrontation between the forces of light and darkness and I predict it will originate in Congress. It will be between a true Conservative who has a bellyfull of the antagonistic, but gonadless Democrat- Communist and it will seriously hurt the D-C. The populace will then begin to pick off the leftists.
Liberals are like Slinkys. They're good for nothing, but somehow they bring a smile to your face as you shove them down the stairs.
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