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Honduras Threatens US Military Bases Over Trump's Mass Deportations
Newsweek ^ | 03 Jan 2025 | Billal Rahman

Posted on 01/03/2025 4:12:12 AM PST by blueplum

Honduras has threatened to shut down rent-free United States military bases in the country if President-elect Donald Trump carries out his mass deportation policy.

President Xiomara Castro said officials would consider "a change in our policies of cooperation with the United States, especially in the military arena," in the face of "unnecessary reprisals against our migrants."...

Honduran President Xiomara Castro has cautioned that she could consider ending military cooperation with the United States if President-elect Trump follows through on his proposals for mass deportations, rejecting asylum claims, and separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border....

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: actofwar; annexhonduras; barbarianinvaders; barbarianinvasion; honduras; illegalmigration; invaders; invasion; military; nationalsecurity; xiomaracastro
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1 posted on 01/03/2025 4:12:12 AM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Your terms are acceptable. Have your illegal aliens back.


2 posted on 01/03/2025 4:15:06 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: blueplum

I think there are 151 million* reasons she won’t do s**t

*foreign aid to Honduras.


3 posted on 01/03/2025 4:16:02 AM PST by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: blueplum

Put out a travel warning on them. Crush their tourism business. They’ll stfu.


4 posted on 01/03/2025 4:18:08 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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To: blueplum

Crushed like a bug.


5 posted on 01/03/2025 4:19:18 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: blueplum

“Rent free military bases”. Bs. They’re getting U.S. aid, and free security. We pull out, and the cartels take over. Maybe they’ll pay her more.


6 posted on 01/03/2025 4:20:27 AM PST by Omnivore-Dan (Shut)
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To: blueplum

SHUT IT DOWN !

SHUT THEM ALL DOWN !

Help the DOGE save even more money!

"Bring the Boys Home" by Freda Payne


7 posted on 01/03/2025 4:23:39 AM PST by Iron Munro (Obi-Wan Kenobi : Who's the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?)
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To: blueplum

Why are Hondurans not staying in Honduras, madam President?


8 posted on 01/03/2025 4:25:39 AM PST by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: blueplum

Over 400,000 drug overdoses of Americans since Biden became President. These threats of the Honduras President are so heartless and irresponsible.


9 posted on 01/03/2025 4:25:56 AM PST by Degaston
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To: blueplum

The remittances back to Honduras are about 23-25% of GDP. They can’t afford the revenue loss from deportations.


10 posted on 01/03/2025 4:26:24 AM PST by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: blueplum

Madame President, incoming President Donald Trump is merely seeking to give back your belongings. Whatever problem could you have with THAT?


11 posted on 01/03/2025 4:26:34 AM PST by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: blueplum

It’s worthwhile to understand why the countries illegals come from don’t want them back. Follow the money. See below.

“Remittances from the U.S. to Spanish-speaking Latin American countries are concentrated in countries closest to the U.S. border. Mexico alone receives more than half—$23 billion in 2012. The share rises to four-fifths when three adjacent countries are added in: Guatemala ($4.4 billion), El Salvador ($3.6 billion) and Honduras ($2.6 billion).”

Compared with what the illegals cost the United States it might be worthwhile to offer these countries an equivalent amount in aid that is designed to provide decent jobs and income in their native countries. If we did this well, we could actually profit from such an arrangement. They could be used to eliminate imports from enemy countries while at the same time strengthening American economic resilience and safety.

I just don’t see the intelligence and focus in American government that’s necessary to make such a complicated arrangement work.


12 posted on 01/03/2025 4:26:55 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: FLT-bird
From Wikipedia on one of the major US air bases -Soto Cano

“Soto Cano Air Base is a Honduran military base 5 mi (8.0 km) to the south of Comayagua in Honduras. It houses 1,200–1,500 U.S. troops and is also used by the Honduran Air Force academy.[2][3] The airbase became operational in 1940, changing the old location of the Honduras Air Force Academy in Toncontin, Tegucigalpa to Palmerola.[4] It serves as one of the important bases to the US Military's presence in Central America.[5]

The U.S. government once used Palmerola (as previously known) as a base of operations to support its foreign policy objectives in the 1980s. Now the U.S. military uses Soto Cano as a launching point for humanitarian aid missions throughout Honduras and Central America.”

So it looks like Honduras may be shutting down our humanitarian aid operations in Honduras. What a shame.

13 posted on 01/03/2025 4:28:35 AM PST by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: blueplum

“Separating families”?

She gets the Democrat talking points.

Well on this particular issue, Trump ain’t backing down.

So the price of some military bases is illegal immigration.
Hard pass.


14 posted on 01/03/2025 4:30:36 AM PST by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: skr

Yeah, good question. And also why don’t you want them back?


15 posted on 01/03/2025 4:30:53 AM PST by Sarcazmo (Dr. Sarcazmo esq.)
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To: Gen.Blather

“Compared with what the illegals cost the United States it might be worthwhile to offer these countries an equivalent amount in aid that is designed to provide decent jobs and income in their native countries. If we did this well, we could actually profit from such an arrangement. They could be used to eliminate imports from enemy countries while at the same time strengthening American economic resilience and safety.”

Would that ‘twere. My personal experience with Latin American countries is that all the money we send to them is divided among the rich and powerful and does not make its way to the people who are making their way to the United States. In order for your suggestion to work, the people in charge would need to change their stripes completely from what placed them in charge.


16 posted on 01/03/2025 4:34:59 AM PST by jagusafr ( )
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To: blueplum

FAFO


17 posted on 01/03/2025 4:36:32 AM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: blueplum

Well I guess they can kiss $785 million in foreign aid goodbye.


18 posted on 01/03/2025 4:38:18 AM PST by Boomer One ( ToUsesn)
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“In order for your suggestion to work, the people in charge would need to change their stripes completely from what placed them in charge.”

Yep. That’s why we have the CIA.


19 posted on 01/03/2025 4:39:18 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: FLT-bird

I sure hope we total trash the ‘bases’ before we go…then dump their illegals on THEM the way they were dumped on US!


20 posted on 01/03/2025 4:40:32 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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