US Ending Aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras Over Migrants

US Ending Aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras Over Migrants

March 30, 2019, 5:55 PM

US Ending Aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras Over Migrants

FILE - People belonging to a caravan of migrants from Honduras en route to the United States cross the Suchiate River to Mexico from Tecun Uman, Guatemala, Jan. 18, 2019.
FILE – People belonging to a caravan of migrants from Honduras en route to the United States cross the Suchiate River to Mexico from Tecun Uman, Guatemala, Jan. 18, 2019.

WASHINGTON —

The United States is cutting off aid to the Central American countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, known collectively as the Northern Triangle, the State Department said Saturday, the day after President Donald Trump alleged that the countries had sent migrants to the United States.
"We are carrying out the president's direction and ending FY 2017 and FY 2018 foreign assistance programs for the Northern Triangle," a State Department spokesperson said in a statement. The State Department declined to provide further details or clarify the time periods involved.
The State Department said that it would "engage Congress in the process," an apparent acknowledgement that it will need lawmakers' approval to end the funding.
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called Trump's order a "reckless announcement" and urged Democrats and Republicans alike to reject it.
"U.S. foreign assistance is not charity; it advances our strategic interests and funds initiatives that protect American citizens," Menendez said in a statement.
Trump claimed Friday during a trip to Florida that the countries had "set up" caravans of migrants in order to export them into the United States. A surge of asylum seekers from the three countries have sought to enter the United States across its southern border in recent days.
"We were giving them $500 million. We were paying them tremendous amounts of money, and we're not paying them anymore because they haven't done a thing for us," Trump said.
Trump also threatened Friday to close the U.S. border with Mexico next week if Mexico does not stop immigrants from reaching the United States, a move that could disrupt millions of legal border crossings and billions of dollars in trade.

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