The Hill — President Obama will ask Congress in his 2016 budget to approve $1 billion to help Central American countries in the wake of last summer’s surge of unaccompanied children entering the United States illegally.
In an op-ed published in The New York Times Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden said the “security and prosperity of Central America are inextricably linked with our own.”
Biden, whom Obama has tasked with leading an effort to aid countries such as El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, wrote that inadequate education, crime, a lack of investment and corruption are impeding their growth.
“On Monday, President Obama will request from Congress $1 billion to help Central America’s leaders make the difficult reforms and investments required to address the region’s interlocking security, governance and economic challenges,” Biden said.
He said it would be triple the amount the U.S. normally provides to that region.
The money would allow the U.S. to fund several efforts Biden outlined such as providing community-based policing and eliminating crime networks.
Under the plan, the U.S. would provide $400 million to promote trade, reduce poverty and improve customs and border integration, among other programs, according to a White House fact sheet.
The U.S. would also give $300 million to improve security and reduce crime. Nearly $250 million would help Central American governments identify necessary reforms they could implement,
The region’s leaders must also realize, Biden said, that aid from the U.S. would not be enough to help them recover. Instead, he recommended that each government manage their finances more effectively.
The increased request comes with House Republican lawmakers focused on border security.
House GOP lawmakers have delayed a vote on a bill that is intended to address security at the U.S. border because of jurisdictional issues involving two congressional committees.
Agencies that supervise the border, which are funded through the Department of Homeland Security, are still operating on 2014 funding levels. Congress must pass a new funding bill by Feb. 27 or the entire department could shut down.
A House-passed bill from earlier this month would provide additional funding to Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but the measure contains riders congressional Democrats and the White House oppose because they would undermine the president’s immigration actions.
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I heard on ground zero radio show
this money can be used to send them all back.
Stop giving our tax dollars away. NO more handouts. Denies barry’s waste of our hard earned dollars. This Muslim is trying to bankrupt America, let the Impeachment begin NOW!!
Right! DO NOT give this AH any more money! Send all the illegals back where they can from! If they
got here, they can get back!
they can’t turn around and ask for a billion dollars in aid and then say we don’t have the money to deport them, nothing but a big fat lie, it always has been.
The only intelligent use of the funds being asked for would be to send illegal aliens home. Otherwise, no more aid. We have done enough by allowing so many from the mentioned countries (Obama has) to cross our borders illegally, avoid required immigration hearings and disappear into their rat warrens here in the USA. Let’s root them all out, send them home in busses or on foot, and most importantly take care of our own for 25 years or so and just see how things go. Biden is an idiot. That he is “in charge” of this new feeble plan, or anything, is a joke, a bad joke. And for all we know the money will be hidden in some offshore bank for Obama to use down the road. Trust these lying jive turkeys? Never. Not even for a minute. Serial liars should NEVER be trusted, especially with money or power.
No money to Obama for more refugees from South America – he needs to quit wasting money and get America back to work! The citizen’s that is! Had enough of Obama wasting tax dollars constantly!
Tell obama to write his complete budget, including exactly what each item is for, on a piece of paper!
Then wad it up, bend over and stick it where the sun don’t shine!
The answer is easy, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO,. Do you understand the word NO Ovomit? We are the taxpayers, we are paying for your extravagant vacations, why don’t you and the little miss’s spend some of that money securing the borders, and stay home for a change. Stay off the golf course and the money there should be spent on border security. Have you lost your total mind Ovomit? Are you crazy, how dare you ask the taxpayers for more money. You need to see a shrink, IMMEDIATELY!!! Let him tell you, you are crazy as a bed bug.
Getting close to the time to march on the former White House. Time for the taxes paid by Americans to stay at home. This country is going bankrupt and we are sending our hard earned money all over the world
absolutely! and it will not cost $1 billion to send them back…
We absolutely need congress to stop fkng around and take care of business
Not one more cent to any country. Use that $1 Billion to build the border fence! Kick the muslimes and Mexicans out FOREVER!
Give him some toilet paper to wipe his mouth…
” OBAMA TO ASK CONGRESS FOR $1 BILLION FOR CENTRAL AMERICA. ”
How much has He asked Congress for to help the Poor & Homeless in His own country ?
Ah the Money that is sent to foreign countries is not given away in fact it is expected to be paid back many times over.
I would love to see our police and us pull them out of every dump and kick their asses back to the border while beating their 3rd world asses, sick of it…they deserve this treatment
he has asked not a damn dime for our poor
and all of this money that he keeps asking for to give away, is money that is borrowed
we should cut off any more vacations for him and his family, they sure do know how to live off of us, but they could never afford to spend their own money that way
That comes as no surprise.
hmmm inadequate education, crime, a lack of investment and corruption…sounds like our country! How about we take the 1 billion and put double fencing across our border and just keep them out!!!