Posted on 03/30/2019 1:31:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
(CNN) The United States is cutting off aid to the Northern Triangle, otherwise known as the Central American countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, the State Department told CNN Saturday, one day after President Donald Trump said they had "set up" migrant caravans for entry into the United States.
"We were paying them tremendous amounts of money. And we're not paying them anymore. Because they haven't done a thing for us. They set up these caravans," Trump said Friday.
"At the Secretary's instruction, we are carrying out the President's direction and ending FY 2017 and FY 2018 foreign assistance programs for the Northern Triangle," a State Department spokesperson said. "We will be engaging Congress as part of this process."
On Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen signed what she called a "first of its kind" regional compact agreement with the Northern Triangle countries aimed at preventing irregular migration, combating criminal organizations and ultimately helping with US border security.
Trump threatened to cut off or substantially reduce aid to the Northern Triangle before saying in an October tweet the countries, "were not able to do the job of stopping people from leaving their country and coming illegally to the US."
But experts have said cutting off aid is likely to increase the number of migrants leaving the countries and heading for the United States.
According to the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, comprised of retired diplomats, military leaders and members of Congress, aid programs in the three countries are working to address the "root causes of violence" in order to "promote opportunity and security for their citizens."
Officials would not say exactly how much money would be affected by the directive with some of it likely already spent...
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ABOUT DAMN TIME!!! Where has the money gone, all the BILLIONS these countries have gotten over the years..INTO THEIR POCKETS..not the people in these countries who need them
Loooooooooong overdue! Glad the President is making it obvious that we mean business.
Immediately to be followed by rulings from U.S. District court judges prohibiting the cutting of money from the US to Honduras, Guatemala, or El Salvador.
Mexico is next, I hope.
A good start, but we should be cutting off ALL foreign aid to EVERYONE. Then restore it on a case-by-case basis only where it provides a clear benefit to the United States.
REPUBLICANS ARE SCREWED!! We don't have the population to overcome their future overwhelming invaders votes!! Trump and future republicans are FKED!! Wait until they vote out all our Tx state representatives!! TEJAS here we come!
Crap!!!
I really thought this was done already.
Going to?
Going to close the border, too?
Stop telegraphing.
Post ICE agents at all polling places.
They don’t even have to be real ICE agents. Just give them windbreakers with ICE on the back.
“”We were paying them tremendous amounts of money. And we’re not paying them anymore. Because they haven’t done a thing for us. They set up these caravans,” Trump said Friday. “
Finally we have a president who puts US first.
Another thread reports CA Gov Newsome is traveling to El Salvador
He should give them 5k per illegal caught in Mexico and repatriated
WAY past time.
Should have been done 30 years ago
You are correct. I saw this coming more than a decade ago and prepaired accordingly securing is much second amendment supplies as I could muster.
Take the money that would have gone and offer a portion to any family that agrees to go home and stay there. A portion in cash up front and the balance to be paid annually only if the family remains in their home country. In other words, direct aid.
Yeah which expert liberal professors would that be?
Professor George Soros.
Now tax the remittances
THAT is a GREAT IDEA, I would be happy to stand close by my polling place with an ICE jacket on!!! We would FINALLY find out just the amount of fraud going on voters in CA. would drop by the MILLIONS!!!
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