Trump Punishes Central American Nations for Allowing Immigrant Caravans to Pass

President Donald Trump displays a signed Executive Order at the Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, January 25, 2017. President Trump signed two Executive Orders to aid in border security and immigration enforcement improvements, and to enhance public safety in the interior of the United States. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

President Trump has tweeted that the countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras will be punished for allowing a caravan of illegal immigrants to march through their territories unabated. The President wrote that America “will now begin cutting off, or substantially reducing, the massive foreign aid routinely given to them.” Bloomberg reports:

President Donald Trump said the U.S. will cut off foreign aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador as thousands of migrants continued to march from Central America toward the U.S. border.

Trump has sought to escalate undocumented immigration as an issue ahead of pivotal midterm congressional elections on Nov. 6, and he has blamed the so-called “caravan” of Central American migrants on Democrats. “Every time you see a Caravan, or people illegally coming, or attempting to come, into our Country illegally, think of and blame the Democrats for not giving us the votes to change our pathetic Immigration Laws!” he said earlier on Twitter.