Trump threatens to cut U.S. aid to Honduras over immigrants
WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to withdraw funding and aid from Honduras if it does not stop a caravan of people that is heading to the United States.
"The United States has strongly informed the President of Honduras that if the large Caravan of people heading to the U.S. is not stopped and brought back to Honduras, no more money or aid will be given to Honduras, effective immediately!" Trump said on Twitter.
Up to 3,000 migrants crossed from Honduras into Guatemala on Monday on a trek northward, after a standoff with police in riot gear and warnings from Washington that migrants should not try to enter the United States illegally.
The crowd more than doubled in size from Saturday, when some 1,300 people set off from northern Honduras in what has been dubbed "March of the Migrant," an organizer said. The migrants plan to seek refugee status in Mexico or pass through to the United States.
Reuters could not independently verify the number of participants, but images showed a group carrying backpacks and clogging roads near the border, some waving the Honduran flag.
The impoverished nations of Central America, from which thousands of migrants have fled in recent years, are under mounting pressure from Trump's administration to do more to curb mass migration. (Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Bernadette Baum and Susan Thomas)
Thoughts? If we can keep the mud slinging to a minimum, I would love to hear some thoughts on this. I think you have to have giant, brass ones to pack everything you own in a backpack and start walking toward what you hope is a better life. Wow. I can't imagine how bad it must be to do that.
However, I would venture to guess that the 3,000 will balloon by a few thousand by the time they get across Mexico. We can't swing the doors open and yell "come on in, make yourselves at home!"
So put yourself in the Oval Office. What do you do?
WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to withdraw funding and aid from Honduras if it does not stop a caravan of people that is heading to the United States.
"The United States has strongly informed the President of Honduras that if the large Caravan of people heading to the U.S. is not stopped and brought back to Honduras, no more money or aid will be given to Honduras, effective immediately!" Trump said on Twitter.
Up to 3,000 migrants crossed from Honduras into Guatemala on Monday on a trek northward, after a standoff with police in riot gear and warnings from Washington that migrants should not try to enter the United States illegally.
The crowd more than doubled in size from Saturday, when some 1,300 people set off from northern Honduras in what has been dubbed "March of the Migrant," an organizer said. The migrants plan to seek refugee status in Mexico or pass through to the United States.
Reuters could not independently verify the number of participants, but images showed a group carrying backpacks and clogging roads near the border, some waving the Honduran flag.
The impoverished nations of Central America, from which thousands of migrants have fled in recent years, are under mounting pressure from Trump's administration to do more to curb mass migration. (Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Bernadette Baum and Susan Thomas)
Thoughts? If we can keep the mud slinging to a minimum, I would love to hear some thoughts on this. I think you have to have giant, brass ones to pack everything you own in a backpack and start walking toward what you hope is a better life. Wow. I can't imagine how bad it must be to do that.
However, I would venture to guess that the 3,000 will balloon by a few thousand by the time they get across Mexico. We can't swing the doors open and yell "come on in, make yourselves at home!"
So put yourself in the Oval Office. What do you do?