Homestead Temporary Detention Center Canceling Activities
From the Washington Post:
"The Trump administration is canceling English classes, recreational programs and legal aid for unaccompanied minors staying in federal migrant shelters nationwide, saying the immigration influx at the southern border has created critical budget pressures.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement has begun discontinuing the funding stream for activities — including soccer — that have been deemed “not directly necessary for the protection of life and safety, including education services, legal services, and recreation,” said Department of Health and Human Services spokesman Mark Weber."
And the other response is to blame Mexico and threaten to raise tariffs.
The amount of money being spent to house these asylum seekers could be better spent helping Mexico, and working with these asylum seekers in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador before they get to the U.S. Border and work with NGO's to make sure legal assistance and sponsors can help the asylum seekers so they don't need to be warehoused with no services at Homestead where the cost is higher than a night at the Trump Doral Golf Resort.
I'm not suggesting that folks at the border be sent to hotels, I don't think cutting foreign aid is an answer either.
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that the Trump administration will provide a set of requirements to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras before the U.S. would consider resuming the foreign assistance it announced at the end of last month would be cut off.
“We have not yet been able to convince El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to take seriously this need to control their own borders and to keep their people from moving into Mexico and ultimately across our southern border, that we should stop, take a time out,” Pompeo told the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs. “We have ceased allocating new funds inside of those three countries.”
A more global approach is needed throughout Central and South America and the Caribbean and the resources of the must be used to help rather than punish asylum seekers.
"The Trump administration is canceling English classes, recreational programs and legal aid for unaccompanied minors staying in federal migrant shelters nationwide, saying the immigration influx at the southern border has created critical budget pressures.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement has begun discontinuing the funding stream for activities — including soccer — that have been deemed “not directly necessary for the protection of life and safety, including education services, legal services, and recreation,” said Department of Health and Human Services spokesman Mark Weber."
And the other response is to blame Mexico and threaten to raise tariffs.
The amount of money being spent to house these asylum seekers could be better spent helping Mexico, and working with these asylum seekers in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador before they get to the U.S. Border and work with NGO's to make sure legal assistance and sponsors can help the asylum seekers so they don't need to be warehoused with no services at Homestead where the cost is higher than a night at the Trump Doral Golf Resort.
I'm not suggesting that folks at the border be sent to hotels, I don't think cutting foreign aid is an answer either.
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that the Trump administration will provide a set of requirements to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras before the U.S. would consider resuming the foreign assistance it announced at the end of last month would be cut off.
“We have not yet been able to convince El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to take seriously this need to control their own borders and to keep their people from moving into Mexico and ultimately across our southern border, that we should stop, take a time out,” Pompeo told the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs. “We have ceased allocating new funds inside of those three countries.”
A more global approach is needed throughout Central and South America and the Caribbean and the resources of the must be used to help rather than punish asylum seekers.
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