Posted on 04/28/2021 1:42:34 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
The White House is planning to send even more U.S. taxpayer money to Guatemala instead of helping to address the border crisis on its home soil.
While speaking during a virtual meeting on Tuesday, the Biden administration announced plans to give an additional $310 million to Guatemala to create a”task force” to manage mass migration into the U.S. It appears $255 million of those funds will go toward unspecified “humanitarian relief,” while another $55 million will provide food to the local population.
This comes as the White House attempts to address the root causes of migration from the Northern Triangle region.
Biden’s plan has already received backlash from Republicans who said that money would be better spent finishing border wall construction and helping Americans instead of being sent abroad.
GOP lawmakers have also pointed out how both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have yet to actually visit the southern border to witness the influx of immigrants for themselves.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials last month, more than 170,000 illegal migrants were taken into federal custody.
The admin is making no such attempt, and that’s because the root cause is Biden promising amnesty and his having urged would-be migrants from ****hole counties everywhere to “surge for the border” many times during the 2020 campaign. Throwing hundreds of millions of our tax dollars at their corrupt leaders will, if anything, make the nations in question even bigger ****holes.
Don’t forget the 10% for the Big Guy.
Biden Admin. To Send $310M To Guatemala For ‘Migrant Relief’
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What this really means is some politically connected NGOs are going to be raking in some big bucks as payback for their campaign donations.
Every one o those countries has a "Big Guy". Some have several who all have their hands out. More stupidity (criminality) from Foggy Bottom and 1600 Pa. Ave.
I just now remembered I have a distant relative down there and he wants to migrate but he said to tell Biden to send me the cash on his behalf in Michigan. How’s that?
THIS is (and HAS been .. ) taxation without representation.
Yup. And nothing will change.
Send birth control.
Lots of it.
He means directly into the pockets of the leftist in charge. Maybe 5% will go to migrant relief.
Likely sent by way of his grifter brother who specializes in third world housing.
GDP per capita is $4400
This is a jaw-dropping amount of money to just give to an impoverished country
“Biden Admin. To Send $310M To Guatemala For ‘Migrant Relief’”
Biden Admin. To Send $310M To Guatemala For it’s government officials to enrich their Swiss Bank Accounts
There, fixed it
Yep. The Palestinian squatter territories have an even lower per capita GDP ($3600), and Biden is sending about them about a quarter bil ANNUALLY.
Time to defund the government.
What's so hard to understand about you put out a bird feeder, you attract birds?
I wonder what his ratings will be tonight?
Buy them better shoes for the trek up here...../s
Ever wonder where humanitarian aid to the Guatemala hellhole ends up?
CIRCA 2013--Guatemalan President stole foreign aid millions for his personal use;
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/
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THIS is (and HAS been .. ) taxation without representation.
Where does all this money come from? Biden's "stash?" Has this money been appropriated by Congress, which supposedly "controls the purse strings?"
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