As migrant caravan rolls on, US cuts off aid
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US President Donald Trump said yesterday the US will start cutting aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador as a caravan of thousands of mostly Honduran migrants rolled on regardless toward the US border.
Trump kept up his almost-daily Twitter attacks on the approaching caravan, calling it a national emergency and said he had alerted the US border patrol and military.
“We will now begin cutting off, or substantially reducing, the massive foreign aid” that the United States provides to the three Central American countries, he said.
Mexican authorities had managed to block the caravan of migrants on a border bridge between Mexico and Guatemala, but many later crossed the river below in makeshift rafts before marching north.
The caravan of around 3,000 migrants was heading yesterday to the town of Huixtla, around 40 kilometers further on from Tapachula in Chiapas State where they slept Sunday night.
“Sadly, it looks like Mexico’s Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States. Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in,” Trump said in one tweet.
“I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergy (sic). Must change laws!”
“We are well aware that this country (Mexico) didn’t receive us as we expected, and they can return us to Honduras, and we also know there are drug traffickers who kidnap and kill migrants,” said Juan Flores, one of those migrants. “But we live with more fear in our country, so we carry on forward.”
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also warned that the migrants “may be victimized by human smugglers or others who would exploit them.”
“We also are deeply concerned by the violence provoked by some members of the group, as well as the apparent political motivation of some organizers,” Pompeo said in a statement.
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