Posted on 10/16/2014 5:32:42 PM PDT by lowbridge
The United States should provide billions of dollars to help Central American nations curb the flow of illegal migrants, Guatemalan President Otto Perez said, and his government warns the problem will get worse if Washington fails to help.
Fleeing violence, trying to reach relatives already in the United States or seeking jobs, record numbers of child migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have been stopped at the southern U.S. border this year, causing widespread alarm.
Last month, the three countries pitched Washington an ambitious development plan to confront the issue.
They want to pump about $10 billion into the region to create jobs and lift living standards, with the bulk of funding coming from the United States, Perez told Reuters.
He hopes the plan could come up with about $2 billion a year from 2015 to 2019, a sum he equated to roughly 10 percent of annual U.S. spending on border security and immigration enforcement.
"Now we understand it's not simply a question of the United States saying: 'Right, here's $2 billion a year for five years' for example - the governments of the three countries have to play their part too," the conservative Perez, who took power in early 2012, said in an interview late on Monday.
The package would boost infrastructure and provide more jobs in all three countries, especially in areas that send large numbers of migrants to the United States, he added.
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It would be better than our current policy.
Hmmmm...how much have we already pumped to them?
How about we just secure our own borders and leave these illegals in the garden spot that is Mexico? That’s a much better solution, IMO.
100% right... BUILD THE DAMN FENCE!!!
I prefer an Australia style solution:
Australia has the right idea and the will to carry it OUT!!
I’ve got a better idea: let’s start charging Mexico and other central American countries for the government/health care/education services their citizens have used and abused here.
have been stopped at the southern U.S. border this year
Stopped only to be relocated all over the country spreading who knows what diseases....
Looks like the standard “community organizer” shakedown.
Good one. Where will we come up with these billions? Why doesn’t Guatemala just pretend it already has the billions?
A new sealevel canal would help if it were wide enough. I suggest turning Nicaragua into open sea.
Ripley had the right idea:
“I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
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