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<h1 class="reader-title">Trump Cuts Aid to Central America Over
Migration, Warns Millions Will Be Deported</h1>
June 17, 2019</div>
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<p>United States (U.S.) President Donald Trump’s
administration on Monday slashed around US$550 million
in aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras due to
thousands of their citizens seeking asylum at the
U.S.-Mexico border.</p>
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<p>“As feared, a presidential tantrum will limit our
nation’s ability to actually help address the challenges
forcing people to flee to the U.S.,” Democratic Senator
Bob Menendez said on Twitter.</p>
<p>Congressional aides affirmed the administration told
them US$370 million in aid to Central America, that
lawmakers had approved for fiscal 2018, would be
relocated, and that an additional US$180 million for
fiscal 2017 would be suspended. On March, Trump <a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/No-More-US-Financial-Aid-for-Guatemala-Honduras-El-Salvador-20190330-0007.html"
target="_blank">warned </a>his administration would
cut these funds. </p>
<p>“We’re not paying them anymore because they haven’t
done a thing for us,” the U.S. head of state said in
regards to his “dislike” of the three nation’s migration
policies. A U.S. official said the administration would
review the funding by April 2020. </p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Next week ICE will begin the
process of removing the millions of illegal aliens
who have illicitly found their way into the United
States. They will be removed as fast as they come
in. Mexico, using their strong immigration laws,
is doing a very good job of stopping people.......</p>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a
href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1140791400658870274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June
18, 2019</a> </blockquote>
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<p>The president warned on Monday that "millions" of
undocumented migrants would be "removed" by ICE next
week.</p>
<p>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is
currently detaining more than 52,500 migrants a day,
most of them are asylum seekers protected by
international law, escaping political persecution, gang
and drug-related violence. </p>
<p>Legislators who oppose the plan said it was “cruel” to
cut off aid to countries grappling with hunger and crime
and that the move would be counterproductive as it would
more likely increase the number of migrants than
decrease it.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">.....there is not, we can
always go back to our previous, very profitable,
position of Tariffs - But I don’t believe that
will be necessary. The Failing <a
href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a>,
& ratings challenged <a
href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a>,
will do anything possible to see our Country fail!
They are truly The Enemy of the People!</p>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a
href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1137697507218264064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June
9, 2019</a> </blockquote>
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<p>Meanwhile, Mexico also announced that rather than
deploy its 6,000 new National Guard across the country
by June 30, it will do so by June 18 at 13 specific
points along the border, a move critics say continues
the militarization techniques introduced by the previous
two administrations.</p>
<p>This move is part of Trump’s imposed policies on Andres
Manuel Lopez Obrador’s government to impose more strict
migration policies in Mexico in a bid to hinder the
thousands of asylum seekers crossing Central America to
reach the U.S. border. </p>
<p>And as Trump has made reducing migration one of his
signature policy pledges, Guatemalan Defense Minister,
Luis Miguel Ralda, confirmed on June 3 that U.S. troops
are already in the country, specifically in the
Guatemala-Mexico border department of Huehuetenango to
prevent migrants from entering Mexico in the first
place.</p>
<p>On Monday, Trump tweeted that "Guatemala is getting
ready to sign a Safe-Third Agreement." Under this sort
of agreement, migrants would be required to seek asylum
in Guatemala if they want to reach the U.S., Canada
struck a pact of those characteristics back in 2002.<br>
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