Obama wants $1 billion to curb Central American immigration

[alp227]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama wants to spend $1 billion to help curb illegal immigration from three Central American countries, according to the president's budget request.

The request was outlined in the president's $4 trillion budget request sent to Congress Monday.

The administration first proposed financial aid to Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala last year after more than 51,000 children from those countries were caught crossing the border alone. At the same time, more than 69,000 people traveling as families, mostly young mothers and children from Central America, were also apprehended at the Mexican border.

The spike in children apprehended at the border caught the Obama administration off guard, despite years of increasing numbers of unaccompanied children found trying to sneak across the border. The situation strained resources within the Homeland Security and Health and Human Services departments, both of which are responsible for dealing with children caught crossing the border alone.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f776af8e14304411b65ef3f37c7c886d/obama-wants-1-billion-curb-central-american-immigration

[jwirr]

1. Exactly how does he propose helping the situation?

[Enrique]

2. good question

unfortunately the way the GOP responds to Obama proposals isn't always very enlightening.

[jwirr]

3. That is true even if he had the most brilliant idea in the world they would say no.

[adieu]

4. Most efficient way to spend that $1B?

Give the money to legitimate NGOs and have them put the money to good use in those Central American countries to create opportunities and value.

Really, once you light the fire in that area, and not let the greedy richer folks take the money away, you will have people leaving the US to return to Central America. Heck, you'll have poor(er) Americans going down there for opportunities.

[Vincardog]

5. Exactly, Simply stop flooding the countries with cheap US grain and allow them to stay home and

Make a decent living.

[roody]

10. Stop with the weapons too.

[jwirr]

6. I agree that this is probably the only way to effect change there.

[AZ Progressive]

7. Obama plans to spend $1 billion to push refugee's heads underwater

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America caused the situation and it doesn't want to take responsibility, just send the refugees back to their deaths.

[blkmusclmachine]

8. All that $$$ will go to the 1%, and to no good.

Trickle down, bay-bee!!

[roody]

9. Stopping the war on drugs would be a good start.

[pampango]

11. Helping poor countries to limit immigration? republicans would rather just build a higher wall to

keep the poor people out. Helping poor people anywhere is not part of their agenda.