President Trump threatens to cut immediately all money and aid to Honduras if it can't stop the caravan of 4000 illegal immigrants to reach US Border
Monday, October 22, 2018
VietPress USA (Oct. 22, 2018): An immigrant caravan originally set formed up as a group of roughly 160 from the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula, known as one of the most violent cities in the world.
The caravan attracts many others to join and the numbers quickly swelled to at least 1,600 before crossing the Guatemalan border. Some news reports estimated last week as many as 3,000 joined.
A growing group of Central American
migrants is now roughly 4,000 persons and is steadily moving northbound through
Guatemala, en route to the United States, where many hope to seek asylum.
President Donald Trump has been
lashing out for days at the Honduran government, where the caravan originated;
the US immigration system; and congressional Democrats — each of whom he has
blamed for the mass group of immigrants.
President Trump fired off
several angry tweets, threatening to have the military "close" the
border and demanding Mexico government to prevent the group from traveling any further to US Border. Trump tweeted: "I must, in the strongest of
terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught - and if unable to do so I will call
up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!".
Today, President Trump requested the Honduran government to stop the caravan
and take back its citizens. Trump threatens "The United States has strongly informed the
President of Honduras that if the large Caravan of people heading to the U.S.
is not stopped and brought back to Honduras, no more money or aid will be given
to Honduras, effective immediately!".
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Trump says he's reducing Central American aid over migrants
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday the U.S. would begin "cutting off, or substantially reducing" aid to three Central American nations over a migrant caravan heading to the U.S. southern border.
Trump tweeted: "Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were not able to do the job of stopping people from leaving their country and coming illegally to the U.S."
The three countries received a combined more than $500 million in funding from the U.S. in fiscal year 2017, though it was not immediately clear how much Trump is seeking to cut.
The Monday morning tweets marked the latest escalation by the president, who is seeking to re-inject immigration politics into the national conversation in the closing weeks of the midterm elections.
On a three-day campaign swing to Western states last week, Trump raised alarm over thousands of migrants traveling through Mexico to the U.S. and threatened to seal off the U.S.-Mexico border if they weren't stopped.
As the migrants continued their northward march about 900 miles from the U.S. border, Trump tweeted that, "Sadly, it looks like Mexico's Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan.
He added: "I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergy." White House officials could not immediately provide details.
A Pentagon spokesman, Army Lt. Col. Jamie Davis, said the Pentagon has received no new orders to provide troops for border security.
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AP writer Bob Burns contributed.
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