Trump Cuts Aid to Central American Countries as Migrant Crisis Deepens
March 31st, 2019Trump should have used the military to shut the border on the day he became President. Over two years later, the situation is worse than ever.
Via: Reuters:
The U.S. government cut aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras on Saturday after President Donald Trump blasted the Central American countries for sending migrants to the United States and threatened to shutter the U.S.-Mexico border.
A surge of asylum seekers from the three countries have sought to enter the United States across the southern border in recent days. On Friday, Trump accused the nations of having “set up” migrant caravans and sent them north.
Trump said there was a “very good likelihood” he would close the border this week if Mexico did not stop immigrants from reaching the United States. Frequent crossers of the border, including workers and students, worried about the disruption to their lives the president’s threatened shutdown could cause.
Let’s not forget all of the US intervention causing the current crises that have these “migrant caravans” pouring across the southern border. The chickens are coming home to roost.
https://www.thenation.com/article/time-for-a-us-apology-to-el-salvador/
“The United States went well beyond remaining largely silent in the face of human-rights abuses in El Salvador. The State Department and White House often sought to cover up the brutality, to protect the perpetrators of even the most heinous crimes.”
https://thepanoptic.co.uk/2016/11/19/american-intervention-guatemala/
“The US supported tactics of repression which would lead to the deaths of 200,000 civilians, and which would rekindle stark ethnic, economic, social and political divisions in society – legacies of colonialism – which the 1944-54 governments had gone a significant way to repairing.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/opinion/in-honduras-a-mess-helped-by-the-us.html
“Ever since the June 28, 2009, coup that deposed Honduras’s democratically elected president, José Manuel Zelaya, the country has been descending deeper into a human rights and security abyss. That abyss is in good part the State Department’s making.”
And then there’s Syria.