US Pledges To Provide Over $10 Billion In Aid To Central America
President Trump’s Tweets On The Wall Spark Massive Concerns
December 19, 2018
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December 19, 2018Are you kidding me? This is a joke, right? Please tell me this is a joke.
According to this, the United States has apparently pledged to provide a grand total of $10.6 billion in aid to Central America. We’re talking $5.8 billion for “strengthening government and economic development in Central America” and $4.8 billion in “development aid for southern Mexico.”
Yet we can’t have money to build our wall? ARE YOU KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW?????
The plan was announced in a joint U.S.-Mexican statement released by the State Department and read aloud by Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard in the Mexican capital.
“In sum I think this is good news, very good news for Mexico,” Ebrard said.
Newly inaugurated President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waxed poetic about the plan to provide jobs so people won’t have to emigrate.
“I have a dream that I want to see become a reality … that nobody will want to go work in the United States anymore,” Lopez Obrador said at a morning news conference before the announcement.
I have a dream too. It involves a wall, preventing entitled people from entering my country ILLEGALLY.
The combination of public and private investment for the stay-at-home effort doesn’t require congressional approval, unlike Trump’s signature project to stem illegal immigration — a border wall.
The U.S. State Department issued a simultaneous statement saying “The United States is committing $5.8 billion through public and private investment to promote institutional reforms and development in the Northern Triangle,” a term that refers to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
This is some bull. We can somehow pledge to provide billions and billions of dollars to help corrupt, crappy countries that won’t even bother to help themselves, but we can’t figure out how to set aside money for our own national security? This is ridiculous.
Oh. And the icing on the cake? The report adds, “It was unclear if Mexico would give anything in return.”
What a joke.
h/t The AP
