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Originally Posted by Pete F.
After the previous administration spent 4 years making things worse in Central America, what would one expect?
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I would expect the current administration to adhere to or create policies that control the border and reduce illegal immigration to a minimum, not create policies that encourage more illegal immigration which even far exceeds in numbers what the leaders of this current administration once considered a crisis.
Your article tries to lay blame on the Trump administration for somehow being the cause of corruption that has existed in central America for decades. Central America was receiving the aid in question before Trump arrived, and illegal immigration was a crisis then, before Trump. Trump negotiated to bring that immigration down to minimal numbers. Biden policy is reverting to the Pre-Trump crisis and worse.
Whatever self-described wonderful policies previous administrations had, did little, if anything, to stop the corruption in Central America, and those previous U.S. administrations, as well, did little, if anything, to stop illegal immigration from south of the border.
We've been told for decades that our meddling in Central America was the problem. Decades of foreign aid was part of that meddling. I believe that the solution for corruption in those countries must be solved from within. We have been throwing billions of dollars in foreign aid to various parts of the corrupt world and having most of that money wind up in the pockets of its corrupt leaders.
If we want to nation build, we can't do it merely by stuffing money in their greedy wallets. And, anyway, we are warned that we don't have the right to nation build around the world.
So if Trump actually got something of benefit, such as greatly reducing illegal immigration from Central America, that's money well spent.
The people of Central America need to solve their own problems--have their own revolutions. Constantly depending on the US as a safe place for multi-millions of their populations does not solve the problems in their home lands, and it creates problems here. Much of the world is under some form of tyranny. Much of the world needs revolutions to occur. Running off to America exacerbates the problems, both there and here. It doesn't solve them.