Trump calls U.S.-bound migrant caravan a national emergency, says will cut aid

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

BIG STORY 12 OCTOBER 22, 2018 / 8:55 AM / UPDATED 24 MINUTES AGO

Trump calls U.S.-bound migrant caravan a national emergency, says will cut aid

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he had alerted the military and federal border authorities that a U.S.-bound migrant caravan from Central America was a national emergency, and that the United States would begin curtailing aid to the region.

Trump, in a series of posts on Twitter, gave no other details about his administration’s actions. Representatives for the White House and the U.S. Border Patrol did not immediately reply to requests for comment.

Representatives for the Pentagon and the U.S. Department of State referred questions to the White House.

“Sadly, it looks like Mexico’s Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States,” Trump wrote in a tweet, adding: “I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergy.”

“Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were not able to do the job of stopping people from leaving their country and coming illegally to the U.S. We will now begin cutting off, or substantially reducing, the massive foreign aid routinely given to them,” Trump wrote.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-caravan/trump-calls-u-s-bound-migrant-caravan-a-national-emergency-says-will-cut-aid-idUSKCN1MW1QM

[duforsure]

1. More race and hate baiting

Used to divide and distract away from all the corruption , conspiring, and lying from trump and putin, and now the murderous Prince.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. I hope that, whatever happens, this doesn't get violent.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Well, since they are leaving because they are not benefiting from the aid we give...

this will certainly solve the problem.

The national emergency seems to be in Honduras.

(Obligatory Trump insult-- Trump is not a piece of shit. Shit actually has uses.)

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

4. He loves taking money away from people...

The national emergency (to him) is more potential Democrats coming. I hope our border patrol welcomes them legally and with open arms.

[awesomerwb1]

5. They've already cut off aid to those countries

substantially the past two years. He's such a f-ing genius he can't add 2+2.

Keep cutting off financial aid to those countries and guess what you'll have more of? Refugees, economic migrants.

Playing politics to energize the basket err base.

[Freethinker65]

6. And just where will those funds end up?? Will the media follow the money as they follow the caravan?

[Blue_Tires]

7. This caravan is WAY too well-timed to be a coincidence

October Surprise, maybe??

And given everything the world knows about Trump and his feelings on nonwhite immigrants, how in the hell did the Hondurans get the idea in their head that we'd roll out the red carpet for them???

[Wounded Bear]

8. It's not a caravan, it's an exodus...

[lpbk2713]

9. What a dumbass.

He keeps trying to outdo himself.