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BREAKING: President Trump Announces Aid Cuts to Multiple Countries Over Illegal Caravan
Townhall.com ^ | October 22, 2018 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 10/22/2018 8:38:42 AM PDT by Kaslin

President Trump announced Monday morning he is starting the process to cut or reduce aid to Central American countries that haven't stopped a caravan of illegal aliens. Over the past few days, the caravan has grown from 4,000 people to 7,000.

Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were not able to do the job of stopping people from leaving their country and coming illegally to the U.S. We will now begin cutting off, or substantially reducing, the massive foreign aid routinely given to them.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2018

Over the weekend, President Trump again threatened to seal off the border if Central American countries or Mexico couldn't control the flow north. 

"I would call in the military and I would seal off the border. I would close up the border. If that happens, and if that continues to move forward, the caravan we’re talking about," Trump said. "I think some bad people started that caravan.. you have some very, very bad people in the caravan. But I will seal off the border before they come into this country."

In Mexico, authorities have failed to stop the massive caravan. Stretching one mile long, it has broken through borders, police lines and barricades. When the cameras are off, caravan members ditch the walking to grab rides on train and trucks.

During an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Friday, Mexican Ambassador Geronimo Gutierrez again argued Mexican immigration policy does not encourage illegal behavior and should be orderly.

President Trump is headed to Texas Monday afternoon and will campaign for Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) in Houston. There's no doubt the caravan will be a heavy topic during his remarks.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Mexico; US: Arizona; US: California; US: Florida; US: New Mexico; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; aid; aliens; arizona; border; buildthefence; california; caravan; daca; dreamact; dreamers; election2018; election2020; elsalvador; florida; guatemala; honduras; invasion; mexico; nevertrumpchandler; nevertrumpdinwiddie; newmexico; newyork; texas
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101 posted on 10/22/2018 10:04:31 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: bramps
Do you shoot to kill?

Yes.

Then what?

Then do cross-border raids to hunt down and kill the organizers. If the Mexican Army, or Police get in the way, then destroy them. Let them know their options. Most of them will make the choices that we want.

Prisoners get herded into camps (in Mexico!) and eventually shipped back to their country of origin. Mexico gets to pay for this and run it - or see a 90% tax on remittances from the United States.

Follow the money and arrest supporters in the United States too.

This is War. Yes, it really sucks. Get it over with quickly.

102 posted on 10/22/2018 10:04:52 AM PDT by flamberge (It seemed like a good idea at the time)
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To: Kaslin

103 posted on 10/22/2018 10:05:01 AM PDT by Lockbar (What would Vlad The Impaler do?)
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To: samadams2000

Someone told me that the invaders won’t reach the US border till next month, well past the midterm election. If that happens it won’t affect Trump/Republicans but harm the Democrats more as so far they seem suspiciously involved in causing this.

On the other hand, if the invaders do reach the border before the midterms it could prove disastrous as I can imagine how the treason media would portray it. Pictures of the military and crying children, ye gads.

I think the invaders started moving too late though. Democrats aren’t good at math and planning. The invaders are currently in Tapachula Mexico which is around 1000 miles from the US border. If they are walking 25 miles a day that’s 40 days till they hit bit. If they somehow get transported by train or car then of course they would get here before the election, but I can’t see how that many could get up here all at once. But to me, they are not the biggest problem facing this country. The biggest problem is the democratic party and the media. Illegals are just a side product of them.


104 posted on 10/22/2018 10:12:37 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

But to me, they are not the biggest problem facing this country.
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The Democrats and Bush League Republicans are using fraudulently documented foreigners to displace US (US citizens)and eventually out vote US right out of our country.

We would not vote for the New World Order so they are importing people who will.


105 posted on 10/22/2018 10:22:47 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Mr. K

Subsidizing the Swiss and Cayman banking industries. How could that fail to improve living conditions. The presidentes of these poor countries use it to pay their chauffeurs, butlers, chefs, gardeners, chamber maids, pool boys, golf caddies and multiple mistresses, not to mention the hardworking body guards. Don’t you care that these poor people will suffer!/s


106 posted on 10/22/2018 10:23:37 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: timestax
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107 posted on 10/22/2018 10:25:59 AM PDT by timestax
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To: SkyPilot

Behold the next iteration of asymmetric warfare.


108 posted on 10/22/2018 10:28:48 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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NICARAGUA SCAMS-—Feds arrest eight Miami suspects in Medicare probe linked to Nicaragua
(Medicare was billed from Nicaragua)
Miami Herald | November 19, 2014 | Jay Weaver / FR posted by Cincinatus’ Wife

As Medicare rackets go, authorities say, this one had no borders. Eleven people associated with a South Florida managed care company were charged Wednesday with fleecing Medicare for services provided to U.S. citizens while they were living in Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, according to an indictment.

Coral Gables-based Florida Healthcare Plus filed false bills for retired Medicare beneficiaries who claimed to be living in the state but were being treated by foreign doctors while
they resided in the two Latin American countries. That is illegal under the federal taxpayer-funded program for senior citizens and the disabled, authorities said.

Eight of the defendants, including a physician, were arrested Wednesday. The remaining three offenders are in Nicaragua. The defendants are accused of defrauding Medicare and the parallel state Medicaid program for low-income people.

All together, the defendants raked in $25 million in the transnational fraud scheme between 2011 and 2014, Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Morales said. The investigation, led by the FBI and Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General, is believed to be the first of its kind in South Florida, the nation’s capital of healthcare fraud, and in the United States.

“Unfortunately, scams that bilk our healthcare system do not stop at our borders,” said George Piro, special agent in charge of the FBI in Miami. “Providing Medicare services in foreign countries but billing as if they occurred in the United States is in-your-face fraud,” said Derrick Jackson, special agent in charge of HHS-OIG’s office in Florida. (Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


109 posted on 10/22/2018 10:28:53 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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NICARAGUA SCAMS-—Feds arrest eight Miami suspects in Medicare probe linked to Nicaragua
(Medicare was billed from Nicaragua)
Miami Herald | November 19, 2014 | Jay Weaver / FR posted by Cincinatus’ Wife

As Medicare rackets go, authorities say, this one had no borders. Eleven people associated with a South Florida managed care company were charged Wednesday with fleecing Medicare for services provided to U.S. citizens while they were living in Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, according to an indictment.

Coral Gables-based Florida Healthcare Plus filed false bills for retired Medicare beneficiaries who claimed to be living in the state but were being treated by foreign doctors while
they resided in the two Latin American countries. That is illegal under the federal taxpayer-funded program for senior citizens and the disabled, authorities said.

Eight of the defendants, including a physician, were arrested Wednesday. The remaining three offenders are in Nicaragua. The defendants are accused of defrauding Medicare and the parallel state Medicaid program for low-income people.

All together, the defendants raked in $25 million in the transnational fraud scheme between 2011 and 2014, Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Morales said. The investigation, led by the FBI and Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General, is believed to be the first of its kind in South Florida, the nation’s capital of healthcare fraud, and in the United States.

“Unfortunately, scams that bilk our healthcare system do not stop at our borders,” said George Piro, special agent in charge of the FBI in Miami. “Providing Medicare services in foreign countries but billing as if they occurred in the United States is in-your-face fraud,” said Derrick Jackson, special agent in charge of HHS-OIG’s office in Florida. (Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


110 posted on 10/22/2018 10:28:53 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
JUST A REMINDER TAXPAYERS : $266 million tax dollars (that we know of) in one Obama spending bill
went to Central America countries earmarked for "humanitarian aid to the children."

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WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS TO HUMANITARIAN US FOREIGN AID TO THESE "IMPOVERISHED" COUNTRIES?
Former Guatemala Prez used US banks to launder foreign aid millions
thieving Guatemalan was elected to "redistribute" the dirt-poor nation's wealth.

Alfonso Portillo---ex-president of Central America's Guatemala--- faced charges in New York that he used US banks to launder millions looted from his impoverished nation. Alfonso Portillo took office in 2000 pledging to (ahem) redistribute Guatemala’s wealth.

Portillo, 61, allegedly ran scams to drain the impoverished country's coffers. The feds say Portillo embezzled about $2.5M provided by the Taiwanese embassy....$1.5 million was earmarked for “Libraries for Peace”....books for school kids.

Portillo colluded w/ corrupt C/A insiders---he personally endorsed three $500,000 checks issued against an account at the Intl Bank of China in Manhattan, then deposited the cash in the Miami bank account of a Guatemalan bank controlled by a close associate and political supporter.

The embezzled foreign aid money was funneled to bank accounts in Paris in the names of Portillo’s ex-wife and daughter.

<><> Portillo swindled nearly $4M defense funds ...

<><> plundered the national bank run by his alleged co-conspirator...

<><> through overdrafts financed by public reserves the pilfered foreign aid money paid for expensive watches and cars, for Portillo and his associates. (NY POST excerpt 5/28/13)

SOURCE http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/
former_guatemala_program_used_from_bJ7Akdr3YK85070OumW5FN

111 posted on 10/22/2018 10:30:28 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Kaslin

Absolute border shutdown. No traffic of any kind, including returning Americans. That ought to put a crimp in future tourism to the sh*thole capital of the hemisphere.


112 posted on 10/22/2018 10:32:38 AM PDT by samtheman (On to victory in November)
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To: GOPJ; Jane Long; MinuteGal; jsanders2001; V K Lee; HarleyLady27; stephenjohnbanker; ...
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus' silence on the invasion is deafening.
What do they know about this. Are they subsidizing the invasion to get more latino power in our Congress?

OPEN THE BOOKS OF the Congressional Hispanic Caucus NOW

This money grab is most assuredly being facilitated thru collusion and conspiracy by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (C/H/C) to increase their political clout, and to jet-stream US foreign aid to their Third World masters.

US tax dollars are then laundered, then funnelled back as campaign donations to amnesty-worshippers' campaign coffers.

The close-mouthed Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been much too secretive about its role in financing, and, possibly using Congressional earmarks to finance the overthrow of the US govt.

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SUBPOENA CELL PHONE RECORDS, COMPUTER DISKS, HARD DRIVES, WIRE-TRANSFERS to determine whether the Hispanic Caucus colluded w/ foreign govts to aid and abet the overthrow of the US govt.

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Taxpayers demand to know the scope and dimension of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus using government offices for illegal purposes.

Taxpayers demand to know if members of the Hispanic Caucus belong to and/or finance violent latino groups advocating the overthrow of the US govt.

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Taxpayers demand documents held by the Hispanic Caucus be scrutinized for possible falsification.

Falsifying Government Documents involves altering, changing, or modifying a document for the purpose of deception.......can also involve forgery and/or passing copies of false documents. Falsifying documents is usually done in connection with broader criminal aims, such as extortion, government fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, financing the invasion and terrorism........

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Call President Trump: Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414

US CONGRESS SWITCHBOARD: (202) 224-3121

U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

Comment Line: 202-353-1555
Switchboard: 202-514-2000

To report tax-free non-profit crimes: EMAIL enforcement@SEC.gov

To report fraudulent fund-raising:
FBI tip line web site----https://www.fbi.gov/tips
FBI electronic fraud unit----www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-fraud-schemes/internet-fraud
FBI Major Case Contact Center: 1-800-CALL-FBI (225-5324)

113 posted on 10/22/2018 10:37:27 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Kaslin

Find the leverage.

Identify what we want done, identify who has the authority to do it, identify what their individual interests are.

Target the interests of the decision makers.


114 posted on 10/22/2018 10:41:17 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: All

Taxpayers dumping major tax dollars on Central America hellholes.

Mérida Initiative / From Wikipedia

The Mérida Initiative (also called Plan Mexico by critics, in reference to Plan Colombia) is a security cooperation agreement among the United States, the government of Mexico, and the countries of Central America, with the declared aim of combating the threats of drug trafficking, transnational organized crime, and money laundering. The assistance includes training, equipment, and intelligence.

In seeking partnership with the United States, Mexican officials point out that the illicit drug trade is a shared problem in need of a shared solution, and remark that most of the financing for the Mexican traffickers comes from American drug consumers. U.S. law enforcement officials estimate that US$12 to 15 billion per year flows from the United States to the Mexican traffickers, and that is just in cash and excludes the money sent by wire transfers.[1] Other government agencies, including the Government Accountability Office and the National Drug Intelligence Center, have estimated that Mexico’s cartels earn upwards of $23 billion per year in illicit drug revenue from the United States.[2][3]

U.S. State Department officials were aware that former Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s willingness to work with the United States was unprecedented on issues of security, crime, and drugs.[4] The initiative was announced on 22 October 2007 and signed into law on June 30, 2008. As of March 2017, $1.6 billion of Mérida assistance had been delivered to Mexico, including 22 aircraft.[5]

Drug cartels and their areas of influence as of 2008.
Mexico remains a transit and not a cocaine production country. Marijuana and methamphetamine production do take place in Mexico and are responsible for an estimated 80% of the methamphetamine on the streets in the United States,[6] while 1100 metric tons of marijuana are smuggled each year from Mexico.[7]

In 1990, just over half the cocaine imported into the U.S. came through Mexico. By 2007, that had risen to more than 90 percent, according to U.S. State Department estimates.[8] Although violence between drug cartels has been occurring long before the war began, the government used its police forces in the 1990s and early 2000s with little effect. That changed on December 11, 2006, when newly elected President Felipe Calderón sent 6,500 federal troops to the state of Michoacán to put an end to drug violence there. This action is regarded as the first major retaliation made against cartel operations, and is generally viewed as the starting point of the war between the government and the drug cartels.[9] As time progressed, Calderón continued to escalate his anti-drug campaign, in which there are now well over 25,000 troops involved.

During president Calderón’s administration, the Mexican government has spent approximately $7 USD billion in an 18-month-old campaign against drug cartels.[10] It is estimated that during 2006, there were about 2000 drug-related violent deaths,[11] about 2300 deaths during 2007; more than 3,725 people have died during 2008.[12][13] Many of the dead were gang members killed by rivals or by the government, some have been bystanders.[14][15] At least 450 police officers and soldiers have been killed since January 2007.[16]

However, reporting of crimes in Mexico has historically been very low and inconsistent. In January 2012 the Mexican government updated its official count to 47,515 deaths since President Calderón began his military campaign against drug trafficking in 2006. Because crimes are seldom investigated there is no way of knowing if these deaths are attributed to organized crime, the police, or the cartels. Another report based on the Mexican census noted that 67,050 homicides had taken place in Mexico from 2007 to 2010 alone. Also, there has been consistent resistance from the Mexican government to release new and accurate public records regarding the issue of homicides.[17]

The National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) has noted that cocaine availability decreased in several U.S. drug markets during the first half of 2007, mostly because of record 33.5 ton cocaine seizures by the Mexican Navy.[18] However, it is estimated that the major drug trafficking organizations are currently reorganizing and readjusting to the new challenges facing their trade; as a result, drug availability in 2008 is once again on the rise.

One of the new adaptations is the use of home-made narco submarines; in 2006, American officials say they detected only three; now they are spotting an average of ten per month, but only one in ten is intercepted.[19] Another recent development is the consolidation of the smaller drug trafficking organizations into powerful alliances, escalating the violence between the groups vying for control of the narcotics trade to the U.S. Some 300 tons of cocaine are estimated to pass through Mexico to the U.S. yearly.[20]

Funding
The U.S. Congress authorized $1.6 USD billion for the three-year initiative (2007–2010). The U.S. Congress approved $465 million in the first year, which includes $400 million for Mexico and $65 million for Central America, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. For the second year, Congress approved $300 million for Mexico and $110 million for Central America, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. A FY09 supplemental appropriation is providing an additional $420 million for Mexico; and $450 million for Mexico and $100 million for Central America has been requested for FY10.[21]

Only about $204 million of that, however, will be earmarked for the Mexican military for the purchase of eight used transport helicopters and two small surveillance aircraft. No weapons are included in the plan.[22][23][24] The bill requires that $73.5 million of the $400 million for Mexico must be used for judicial reform, institution-building, human rights and rule-of-law issues. The bill specifies that 15% of the funds will be dependent on Mexico making headway in four areas relating to human-rights issues, and on which the U.S. Secretary of State will have to report periodically to Congress.[25][26]

An additional $65 million was granted for the Central American countries (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama); the House also included Haiti and the Dominican Republic in this bill for Central America, which is a comprehensive public security package that seeks to tackle citizen insecurity in Central America by more effectively addressing criminal gangs, improving information sharing between countries, modernizing and professionalizing the police forces, expanding maritime interdiction capabilities, and reforming the judicial sector in order to restore and strengthen citizens’ confidence in those institutions.[27]

Much of the funding will never left the United States. It went toward the purchase of aircraft, surveillance software, and other goods and services produced by U.S. private defense contractors. While this included equipment and training, it did not involve any cash transfers or money to be provided directly to the Government of Mexico or its private contractors. According to U.S. State Department officials, 59% of the proposed assistance went to civil agencies responsible for law enforcement, and 41% to operational costs for the Mexican Army and Mexican Navy. While the initial cost for equipment and hardware that the military required is high, it is expected that future budget requests will focus increasingly on training and assistance to civil agencies.

As of March 2017, $1.6 billion of Mérida assistance had been delivered to Mexico, including 22 aircraft.[5] Congress provided $139 million in FY2017, and President Trump’s FY2018 budget request includes $85 million for the Mérida Initiative.[5]

More at WIKI


115 posted on 10/22/2018 10:43:11 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: gaijin; Kaslin

The military should handle it like an emergency deployment of a Division overseas - a big logistics exercise for USTRANSCOM.

Declare martial law along the border area effected, to allow immediate deportation without hearing.

Put enough personnel on the ground to zip tie infiltrators, tag them with an identifier number, and load them on buses.

Run a stream of buses from the border to the nearest airbase, and capture their identification information. Load them onto planes.

Run a flow of aircraft from there to Soto Cano Airbase (Palmerola) in Honduras. Give each detainee one MRE and some water. Send an MP Battalion down there to handle receiving the planes.

Run busloads outside the gate, disembark the detainees, and remove their zip ties. Tell them Adios. Mexicans too.


116 posted on 10/22/2018 10:46:10 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Kaslin

Our tax dollars have been passed out candy. Time to stop unless loyalty is shown to this country.


117 posted on 10/22/2018 10:47:45 AM PDT by jetson
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To: gaijin

Cardboard and aluminum foil heat shields.


118 posted on 10/22/2018 10:48:24 AM PDT by Rebelbase (..)
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To: Liz

Time to print $50 bills as the maximum-high bill.


119 posted on 10/22/2018 10:57:12 AM PDT by Does so (If Trump Colluded with Russians, Why Did Hillary Win The Popular Vote?)
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To: BeauBo

Also, take bio-info from each.


120 posted on 10/22/2018 10:58:57 AM PDT by Does so (If Trump Colluded with Russians, Why Did Hillary Win The Popular Vote?)
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