Trump threatens to cut off aid to Honduras over immigrant 'caravan'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Trump on Tuesday threatened to cut off aid to Honduras if its government does not stop a migrant "caravan" from heading north toward the U.S. border.

"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!" the president tweeted.

The president was responding to reports that a group of 1,600 or more Hondurans hoping to reach the U.S. crossed the border into Guatemala on Monday. Members of the caravan have said they are fleeing poverty and violence in their home country in search of a better life.

The U.S. gave $175 million in aid to Honduras in fiscal 2017, according to the United States Agency for International Development.

Trump has long sought to crack down on illegal immigration, arguing that migrants bring crime and drugs into the country. He has highlighted the issue in the run-up to the November midterm elections in an effort to fire up his conservative base.

The Washington Post recently reported the Trump administration is considering a policy that could again separate parents from their children as a way to stem the high numbers of families crossing illegally into the U.S.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/411575-trump-threatens-to-cut-off-aid-to-honduras-over-immigrant-caravan

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Not surprised that he's throwing a fit on this again. He's done before in the past on a prior...

group moving through these countries before. Too bad he's cried 'wolf' too many times ... the hypocrisy is already settling in w/ his bitching, we pretty ignore it now.

[Freethinker65]

2. Wait. I thought stealing their kids at the border was a deterrent?

[Eugene]

3. Immigrant caravan organizer detained after Trump threatens Honduras

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS OCTOBER 16, 2018 / 9:19 AM / UPDATED 14 MINUTES AGO

Immigrant caravan organizer detained after Trump threatens Honduras

Doina Chiacu, Jorge Cabrera
5 MIN READ

WASHINGTON/ESQUIPULAS, Guatemala (Reuters) - The organizer of a migrant caravan from Honduras was detained on Tuesday in Guatemala after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to withdraw funding and aid from Honduras if the flow of migrants north to the United States was not stopped.

Guatemalan police officers detained Bartolo Fuentes, a former member of the Honduran Congress, from the middle of a large crowd he and three other organizers had led from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, since Saturday, bound for Mexico.

The Honduran security ministry said Fuentes was detained because he “did not comply with Guatemalan immigration rules” and would be deported back to Honduras in the coming hours.

Up to 3,000 migrants, according to organizers’ estimates, crossed from Honduras into Guatemala on Monday on a trek northward, after a standoff with Guatemalan police in riot gear and warnings from Washington that migrants should not try to enter the United States illegally.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-caravan/immigrant-caravan-organizer-detained-after-trump-threatens-honduras-idUSKCN1MQ1UX

[Stallion]

4. I wouldn't be Surprised if this was Funded by Republicans Trying to Scare Voters Before Mid-terms