- President Trump ordered the cuts in late March, and Monday’s announcement revealed that $432 million in aid allocated in fiscal year 2017 would continue but $185 million would be withheld until the governments of the so-called “Northern Triangle” countries take “concrete actions” to reduce the numbers of families and minors now arriving at the southwest border.
- Both of them, a former first lady of the country and a former prisons director, vehemently oppose the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (or CICIG by its Spanish initials), a United Nations prosecutorial panel that’s been operating in Guatemala since 2007.
- However, since last year far fewer migrant families and minors have come from El Salvador than from Honduras and Guatemala, such that even if the country achieved zero emigration, the United States would still have a worsening border crisis on its hands.
- The U.S. State Department said Monday it would cut millions of dollars in foreign aid to Central America, because governments in the region haven’t done enough to curb the unprecedented surge of families and unaccompanied minors heading towards the U.S.-Mexico border.
- Consider that Guatemala, the country sending by far the most families and minors to the U.S.-Mexico border, is right now embroiled in a political corruption crisis.
- As if rampant political corruption weren’t enough, Guatemala is also facing widespread famine in its western highlands, where successive years of drought, failed harvests, and “coffee rust” fungus have devastated coffee farms and forced villagers, many of whom speak neither English nor Spanish, to head north.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/21/cutting-aid-to-central-america-wont-solve-the-border-crisis-itll-make-it-worse/
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