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| Trump says US to start cutting aid as migrant caravan rolls on |
| 2018-10-23 |
| [Al Ahram] President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... said Monday the US will start cutting aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador as a caravan of thousands of mostly Honduran 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 The caravan of around 3,000 "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!" Activists say the journey through of at least 3,000 kilometers (1,800 miles) through Mexico to the US border could take a month. "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 narcos who kidnap and kill "But we live with more fear in our country, so we carry on forward," he added. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also warned that the |
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