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Trump Cuts Aid to Central American Countries as Migrant Crisis Deepens

31-3-2019 < Blacklisted News 24 156 words
 

Trump 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.


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