Opposing Views – by Sean Kelly
President Obama will reportedly request $1 billion from Congress to help Central American countries make reforms necessary to address political, economic and security challenges in the wake of the major increase in Central American children entering the U.S. illegally last summer.
Vice President Joe Biden detailed Obama’s effort in an op-ed for the New York Times, saying that the “security and prosperity of Central America are inextricably linked with our own.”
“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. Obama’s aid request, according to the Vice President, is three times what the U.S. typically provides to the region.
The plan, which will be proposed in President Obama’s budget for 2016 on Monday, would “provide $400 million to promote trade, reduce poverty and improve customs and border integration, among other programs,” according to The Hill. In addition, the U.S. would provide $300 million to reduce crime and strengthen security, and $250 million would go towards helping leaders identify reforms to implement.
Biden acknowledged that despite aid from the U.S., countries in the region would still need to better manage their finances. “Central American economies can grow only by attracting international investment and making a more compelling case to their citizens to invest at home,” Biden wrote. “That requires clear rules and regulations; protections for investors; courts that can be trusted to adjudicate disputes fairly; serious efforts to root out corruption; protections for intellectual property; and transparency to ensure that international assistance is spent accountably and effectively.”
Biden said in his op-ed that he believes significant improvements can be made throughout Central America, and is confident that with the help of Congress, U.S. aid would help countries in the region become “overwhelmingly middle class, democratic and secure.”
“That is why we are asking Congress to work with us,” he said. “Together, we can help Central America become an embodiment of the Western Hemisphere’s remarkable rise — not an exception to it.”
Sources: The Hill, Huffington Post, New York Times / Photo Credit: time.com
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/president-obama-request-1-billion-aid-central-america
$1 Billion for aid for South America – translates into which South American Country has Rothschild/Goldman Sachs decided the American people should foot the bill for their looting and gutting and toppling of small governments?
Hey Biden – how about $1Billion dollars to restore America’s middle class that has all fallen into poverty thanks to traitors like you?
With less than $1Billion this criminal cartel in Washington DC could give every working class American $1Million to use to reclaim their middle class status…imagine the number of small business that would be started, the homes that would be bought, the college educations that would be paid for……….but would this Rothschild/Goldman Sachs owned treasonous government ever even think of helping the people who are the backbone of this country? Oh no, they never would do that as they are actually in the process of destroying that backbone to replace it with a bunch of uneducated, low-wage slaves from South America………
USG – pumping every last nickel out of the middle class and into the bank accounts of the 1%…….
By bankrupting Americans they figure they can leave us all too stressed out to rise up against this communist regime………FU Obama & Biden & all of Congress……….TRAITORS TO AMERICA
How about requesting $1 Billion for a Southern border fence, you treasonous piece of shit!!! 😡
Exactly.
dam you beat me to it 😉
“We need to set up a rail system to funnel them in because too many wetbacks are getting lost in the woods”.
How about a billion in aid for the citizens of the u.s. you’re destroying?
And you donate YOUR money out of YOUR OWN pocket !
Then I am all for it.
Leave my money $$ alone.