Mexico's not paying for his wall, but Trump's paying Mexico $20 million--
damn. the slime gets stinkier by the minute!
Mexicos not paying for his wall, but Trumps paying Mexico $20 million
https://shareblue.com/trump-pays-mexico-20-million-no-border-wall-immigration/
By Eric Boehlert -
September 13, 2018
Trump's cruel 'zero-tolerance' policy has been an abysmal failure, and so has his wall. So now Trump's paying Mexico.
Theres no way Mexico is ever going to pay for Trumps proposed wall along the southern border. So now Trumps going to pay Mexico in his fight against immigrants.
In a recent notice sent to Congress, the administration said it intended to take $20 million in foreign assistance funds and use it to help Mexico pay plane and bus fare to deport as many as 17,000 people who are in that country illegally, the New York Times reports.
The deportation funds now heading to Mexico were originally approved by Congress in the form of foreign aid. But members of Congress bitter over a lack of funding for their anti-immigration crusade have redirected money that may have otherwise gone to building schools or helping stabilize war-ravaged countries.
Congress intended for this money to lift up communities dealing with crime, corruption and so many other challenges, not to expand this administrations deportation crusade, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) told the Times. I want answers about why the State Department thinks it can ignore Congress and dump more cash into deportation efforts.
The move is especially embarrassing as it highlights the failures of Trumps hateful zero tolerance policy at the border, which calls for the criminal prosecution of any immigrant who enters the country without authorization, even if theyre seeking asylum. That in turn has ripped thousands of families apart..................................
U.S. Plans to Pay Mexico to Deport Unauthorized Immigrants There
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/us/politics/us-mexico-deportation-funds.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Central American migrants at the border in Tijuana. The money from the Trump administration will help Mexico increase deportations of Central Americans.CreditCreditMeghan Dhaliwal for The New York Times
By Gardiner Harris and Julie Hirschfeld Davis
Sept. 12, 2018
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