Why Cutting Aid to Central America Is Right and Good
By Todd Bensman on April 16, 2019
Critics deriding President Donald Trump's decision to cut American aid to the "Northern Triangle" nations of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador — to prompt more willingness by those governments to halt population transfers to the U.S. Southwest Border — betray an almost childlike naiveté about how the world really works.
The Trump administration's plan is to cut off $450 million in aid unless, as President Trump once put it, those countries "get with it" to deter and physically halt emigration to our southern border, projected to reach one million Central American family members by the end of this year. The so-called "caravans" of late offer the most visible evidence of Northern Triangle governmental reluctance (and Mexico's too) to slow the flow, as security forces easily give way to violent young male migrants forcing their way past them by fist, rock, and numbers.
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