Rep Cuellar: Federal Budget Deal Includes Crucial Foreign Aid To Stem Illegal Immigration
Texas Tribune / by Jay Root / Dec. 16, 2015
(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)
Photo by Spencer Selvidge
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, at a Texas Tribune Event.
In a rare bipartisan compromise on illegal immigration, the next federal budget will provide nearly $1 billion in funding for Mexico and Central America to help stop the flow of undocumented migrants to the United States, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar announced Wednesday. Cuellar, a Laredo Democrat, said he worked closely with Republican U.S. Rep. Kay Granger of Fort Worth in securing the $897 million for the region — an increase of almost $200 million for Central America alone.
Cuellar said the money, much of it to promote economic stability and development, will give immigrants more reason to stay home, all the while providing badly needed breathing room for overtaxed law enforcement officers along the U.S.-Mexico border. The Laredo native said too often policymakers focus their attention on those crossing over the border into the U.S. while ignoring the problems festering on the other side of it, making it harder to stop the flow. We continue to play defense on our goal line when it comes to the issue of illegal immigration, Cuellar said. I’ve repeatedly said that to stop illegal immigration here at home, we must provide strategic investment abroad.
The funding is part of the deal to fund the U.S. government in the 2016 fiscal year. Finalized Tuesday night, it still has to be passed in both houses and approved by the president before becoming law.
The funding package includes $750 million to support the Plan of the Alliance for Prosperity in the Northern Triangle, a program aimed at implementing economic and legal reforms in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, plus $100 million to help Mexico combat drug trafficking, Cuellar’s office said.
SOURCE http://www.texastribune.org/2015/12/16/cuellar- says-foreign-aid-fight-illegal-immigration/
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HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU TAX DOLLARS
Guatemalan president absconded to the US w/ the country's foreign aid money---to do some money laundering (cackle).
NY POST REPORT: Former Guatemala Prez used US banks to launder millions (elected to "redistribute" nation's wealth)
An ex-president of Guatemala faced charges in NY that he used US banks to launder millions looted from his impoverished nation. Alfonso Portillo took office in 2000 pledging to redistribute Guatemala’s wealth.
Portillo, 61, allegedly ran scams to drain the impoverished country's coffers. The feds say Portillo embezzled about $2.5M provided by the Taiwanese embassy....$1.5 million was earmarked for “Libraries for Peaceâ€....books for school kids.
Portillo personally endorsed three, $500,000 checks issued against an account at the Intl Bank of China in Manhattan, then deposited the cash in the Miami bank account of a Guatemalan bank controlled by “a close associate and political supporter†.....the money was funneled to bank accounts in Paris in the names of Portillo’s ex-wife and daughter.
Portillo swindled nearly $4M defense funds ...and plundered the national bank run by his alleged co-conspirator through overdrafts financed by public reserves -- stolen money paid for expensive watches and cars, for himself and his associates, according to the indictment. (NY POST 5/28/13)
SOURCE http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/former_guatemala_ program_used_from_bJ7Akdr3YK85070OumW5FN