GOP Pushes Back Against Joe Biden’s ‘Naive’ Plan to ‘Bribe’ Central American Migrants Not to Break U.S. LawsEdwin Mora 3 May 2021
The top Republicans on two House panels declared their concern Monday over a reported plan by the Biden Administration to send cash payments to Central American countries to help address the root causes of the migrant crisis.
Republican Reps. James Comer of Kentucky and Jason Smith of Missouri, the ranking members of the committees on oversight and budget, raised questions about Biden’s “conditional cash transfer program” to combat the ongoing U.S. southern border crisis in a letter sent Monday to Acting Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Shalanda Young.
They wrote:
In the midst of a border crisis propelled by the Biden Administration reversing successful [Trump-era] deterrent policies, it is worrisome that the administration’s solution isn’t to reinstate those policies or replace them with workable solutions, but instead to funnel more money to pay countries to dissuade their citizens from breaking U.S. laws, particularly countries with corruption concerns.
Ambassador Robert Jacobson, the outgoing White House Border Coordinator, recently stated that a conditional cash transfer program would be targeted at residents of Northern Triangle countries but cautioned that “the U.S. government isn’t going to be handing out money or checks to people.”
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