Posted on 07/24/2014 11:19:08 AM PDT by kristinn
Central American presidents sharply criticized Washington on Thursday for failing to address the root causes of violence and poverty in their countries that helped spur a recent influx of child migrants to the United States.
“Washington must understand that if there exists drug violence in Central America, if there is no peace, if there is a lack of opportunity, this will redound to enormous costs to the United States,” Honduras’s Juan Orlando Hernández said during an appearance with Guatemala’s Otto Pérez Molina at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The two leaders repeatedly described the situation as a “crisis” but said they are eager to work with the U.S. government to form a new long-term regional pact to address the crisis.
The two presidents met with members of Congress in the morning to press their case for more U.S. aid, a day before they were set to meet with President Obama and Vice President Biden. Salvador Sánchez Cerén, the president of El Salvador was scheduled to arrive in Washington later Thursday and also will attend the White House conclave.
The meetings come as the Obama administration and Capitol Hill lawmakers debate how to ramp up efforts to stem the flow of more than 57,000 unaccompanied children and another 55,000 adults with children who have been apprehended along the border since last October. The numbers are far higher than in past years, driven largely by an exodus of Central Americans who are hoping they will be allowed to remain in the U.S.
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Juan, why don’t you fix your own country?
Cut off foreign aid, ban remittances and then, the hard thing, ban the import of their bananas
Why don’t WE fix THEIR problem???
Booosh’s fault again?
Central American presidents need new Yachts and new Villas, the old one are ,Ah , getting Old
Those numbered off shore banks accounts don't fill themselves, you know
“criticized Washington on Thursday for failing to address the root causes of violence and poverty in their countries that helped spur a recent influx of child migrants to the United States.”
IN THEIR COUNTRIES
Sorry, I didn’t know we were baybysitter for the whole world......................unbelievable.
Glad to see the wash compost carrying the mail for ‘em.
Yeah Juan we’re not the world’s piggy bank anymore. Obama fixed that!
Now you expect us to feed, clothe, house, educate, and provide free healthcare for all of your walking breeding machines when our damned citizens can’t get any help!
The One’s day is coming and it’s going to be one of his own people not us. It’s gonna be ugly.
After reading the first sentence, I had to look and see if it was satire.
They are complaining that the US is not fixing their problems?
Take your people home and we will call it even. Moochers all of them
How come we don't hear the term OBAMANOMICS out there?
If these “children” were legitimate refugees, they’d be in camps in the first safe country they came to. Wouldn’t that be Belize or Mexico? Letting them cross the border from Mexico makes no sense, since they were safe enough in Mexico to travel across that country.
This whole mess is looking more and more like a shake-down by Latino leaders.Just send money(lots of it)and they will make the probem go away.
Cut off foreign aid, ban remittances and then, the hard thing, ban the import of their bananas
These losers are doing everything they can to paint this as a USA-caused problem.
Yes, drugs come from central America to the USA, but where do the drugs come from to begin with, that come into south America in the first place? Why aren’t they as vocal against that nation or nations? And why haven’t they stopped the traffic before it gets to the USA and contaminates our populace?
Yes, we went in and helped Columbia clean up their drug problem, but that was supposed to be an example of leadership for other central/south American countries to do the same. And they didn’t.
The USA has spent billions combatting central American drugs. The drug trafficking problem is a central American corruption problem, not an America-caused problem.
I had to look and see if it was satire
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A lot of news stories these days sound like satire. The country has become a farse.
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