Washington/El Paso — The US government has cut aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras after President Donald Trump blasted the Central American countries for sending migrants to the US and threatened to shutter the US-Mexico border. A surge of asylum seekers from the three countries have sought to enter the US across the southern border in recent days. On Friday, Trump accused the nations of having “set up” migrant caravans and sent them north. Trump said there was a “very good likelihood” he would close the border this week if Mexico did not stop immigrants from reaching the US. Frequent crossers of the border, including workers and students, worried about the disruption to their lives the president's threatened shutdown could cause. At a rally on the border in El Paso, Texas, Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke denounced Trump's immigration policies as the politics of “fear and division”. A state department spokesman said in a statement it was carrying out Trump's di...
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