{"id":4268,"date":"2021-01-20T12:45:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T12:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4268"},"modified":"2021-01-20T12:45:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T12:45:43","slug":"biden-should-strive-to-be-better-than-both-trump-and-obama-on-central-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4268","title":{"rendered":"Biden Should Strive To Be Better Than Both Trump and Obama on Central America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“For all the differences between Barack Obama’s and Donald Trump’s approaches to immigration, both administrations tried to discourage immigration from Central America. Blinken appears poised to continue that under Biden: The reason he wants to restore aid to Northern Triangle nations is to encourage would-be migrants to stay home. As The New York Times<\/em>puts it<\/a>, the point is “to persuade migrants that they will be safer and better off remaining home.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was the Obama approach. In those days, then\u2013Vice President Biden helped broker a bipartisan deal to send $750 million in aid to those countries, hoping to stem the outflow of migrants by spurring economic improvement, rooting out corruption, and cracking down on violent crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Obviously, the problems in those countries when it comes to crime and gang violence, drugs, lack of economic opportunity, among other things, are huge drivers,” Blinken said in a July interview<\/a> with the Hudson Institute. “The idea that someone wakes up in the morning and says, ‘Gee, wouldn’t it be great fun today to give up everything I know, where I live, my family, my friends, my comfort and go to someplace that may not want me where I may not even know the language or have family or friends. Wouldn’t that be a great thing to do?'”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But did the aid package really change that calculation? According to the Council on Foreign Relations, Obama’s tenure saw the deportation of around 3 million people<\/a>, outpacing the number under President George W. Bush. And a majority<\/a> of those deportees came from the Northern Triangle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I doubt the Biden administration will try to make migration from Central America easier,” says Stephen Yale-Loehr, immigration law attorney and professor at Cornell University. “At most they hope to manage it better.””<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Biden Should Strive To Be Better Than Both Trump and Obama on Central America<\/a><\/blockquote>