This weekend The Washington Post ran a story titled, "The Stay Here Center." The premise of the story is "A U.S.-funded school gives young Guatemalans job skills to find success in their own country." The question of the story is, "Will it keep them from migrating north?" But the answer to that question remains unclear because, despite United States taxpayers spending thousands on this school and millions more on similar programs, nobody is keeping track of whether or not these programs actually deter illegal immigration.
As noted by the Post President Trump recently threatened to cut funding, such as the "Hundreds of millions of dollars each year on programs such as the Stay Here Center, aimed at improving the lives of would-be migrants in their own communities so they don't leave home in the first place," to Central American nations who do not stop illegal aliens from leaving.
The taxpayer-funded agency, USAID, "Says it does not keep track of the center's results - the federal agency relies on the International Organization for Migration for oversight." But, the "IOM says it has not tracked the school's impact on local migration trends."
These smugglers charge $12,000 per head. Experts note that illegal aliens are able to send much more money back from the United States to their families than they ever could by earning here.
Under President Obama, similar methods of deterring illegal immigration in Central American countries - education programs, jobs programs, warning signs - actually had the opposite effect intended and led to the 2014 surge of child migrants entering the United States.
Today, immigration officials say the United States is at a "Breaking point" and "a border influx that is on pace to be the largest in more than a decade, led by Guatemalan and Honduran asylum seekers who arrive with children and surrender to U.S. agents."
President Trump has given Central American nations one year to address the flow of illegal immigration while continuing to use taxpayer dollars to fund programs, like the Stay Here Center, that the GAO has already found to be ineffective.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/04/21/united-states-gives-millions-to-guatemalan-school-to-deter-illegal-immigration-yet-doesnt-keep-track-of-results-n2545101
As noted by the Post President Trump recently threatened to cut funding, such as the "Hundreds of millions of dollars each year on programs such as the Stay Here Center, aimed at improving the lives of would-be migrants in their own communities so they don't leave home in the first place," to Central American nations who do not stop illegal aliens from leaving.
The taxpayer-funded agency, USAID, "Says it does not keep track of the center's results - the federal agency relies on the International Organization for Migration for oversight." But, the "IOM says it has not tracked the school's impact on local migration trends."
These smugglers charge $12,000 per head. Experts note that illegal aliens are able to send much more money back from the United States to their families than they ever could by earning here.
Under President Obama, similar methods of deterring illegal immigration in Central American countries - education programs, jobs programs, warning signs - actually had the opposite effect intended and led to the 2014 surge of child migrants entering the United States.
Today, immigration officials say the United States is at a "Breaking point" and "a border influx that is on pace to be the largest in more than a decade, led by Guatemalan and Honduran asylum seekers who arrive with children and surrender to U.S. agents."
President Trump has given Central American nations one year to address the flow of illegal immigration while continuing to use taxpayer dollars to fund programs, like the Stay Here Center, that the GAO has already found to be ineffective.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/04/21/united-states-gives-millions-to-guatemalan-school-to-deter-illegal-immigration-yet-doesnt-keep-track-of-results-n2545101
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