WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Monday that Guatemala was “getting ready to sign” an agreement that would force migrants who flee persecution in El Salvador and Honduras to request asylum in Guatemala instead of Mexico or the United States. A U.S. State Department delegation traveled to Guatemala last week to seek approval […]
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration wants to halt funding to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, the State Department confirmed Saturday. “We are carrying out the president’s direction and ending [fiscal year] 2017 and [fiscal year] 2018 foreign assistance programs for the Northern Triangle,” a State Department spokesperson said in a statement. “We will be engaging […]
As a caravan of Central American migrants continues its arduous trek toward the U.S., President Donald Trump reiterated Thursday the military would be used to prevent its entry into the U.S. from the southern border. “I am bringing out the military for this National Emergency. They will be stopped!,” Trump wrote in a post on […]
President Donald Trump says the U.S. “will now begin cutting off or substantially reducing” the amount of foreign aid given to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, saying they were “not able to do the job” of stopping migrants from leaving their countries and “coming illegally” to the U.S. His Twitter comments Monday came as a […]