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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsU.S. officials said aid to El Salvador helped slow migration. Now Trump is canceling it.
By Kevin Sieff April 1 at 8:03 PM
MEXICO CITY Until last week, U.S. officials held up El Salvador as proof that foreign aid could help curb migration. The partnership between the two countries drew praise from diplomats, members of Congress and even Americas top border enforcement official.
Then President Trump announced that he was withdrawing economic assistance to the Central American country and its neighbors Guatemala and Honduras.
They havent done a thing for us, the president said Friday.
The claim baffled development officials and Salvadorans, who saw the countrys cooperation with the United States on security, civil society and economic development as a success story, inasmuch as it achieved the Trump administrations goal of slowing the flow of migrants heading north to the United States.
In the past three years, both El Salvadors homicide rate and migration flows have declined sharply. More than 72,000 Salvadorans were apprehended crossing the U.S. border in 2016. By 2018, the number had plummeted by more than half, to fewer than 32,000.
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U.S. officials said aid to El Salvador helped slow migration. Now Trump is canceling it. (Original Post)
DonViejo
Apr 2019
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Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)1. There is only one way to stop the regugee/immigration crisis...
Improve conditions in the countries from which people are fleeing.
The Republican plan to turn the US into a 3rd world shithole nobody wants to come to will ease it some, I guess, but it won't stop it completely.
LuvNewcastle
(16,847 posts)2. Why should we help poor people?
"They haven't done a thing for us."
panader0
(25,816 posts)3. Isn't that one of those three Mexicans countries?
Hell, you could throw Puerto Rico in there and there would be four Mexican
countries.