Claim: President Donald Trump “immediately discontinued” an aid program to Central America. 
Verdict: REFUTES

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title: Central American Minors Program
text: of the Northern Triangle had not been effective and that the violence in these countries had only gotten worse. Since Trump's executive order to push for immigration enforcement on border security in January, it initiated the termination process of the CAM program. After Donald Trump’s executive order banned the entry of refugees, the CAM program was suspended. Since the CAM program was part of the larger Refugee program President Obama established, the executive order halted the entry of refugees for 120 days. It also put 2,700 children who were already accepted on hold. Since Trump's new policy, about 3,000 minors

title: First 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency
text: it requests federal agency reports by late March 2017 which "identify and quantify all sources of direct and indirect Federal aid or assistance to the Government of Mexico on an annual basis over the past five years, including all bilateral and multilateral development aid, economic assistance, humanitarian aid, and military aid." On January 27, Forbes cautioned that the 20% Mexican Import Tariff on all imported goods announced by Spicer to pay for the 1,933-mile (3,111 km) frontier wall would be "paid by Americans". GOP donors, Brothers Charles and David Koch, and their advocacy group, Americans For Prosperity, oppose Paul Ryan's

title: Central American migrant caravans
text: noted that mentions of the caravan by Fox News dropped dramatically immediately following the 2018 midterm elections. Trump told supporters that there were "criminals and unknown middle easterners" in the caravan despite the lack of any evidence for this charge. Likewise, Vice President Pence in an interview with Fox News stated: What the president of Honduras told me is that the caravan was organized by leftist organizations, political activists within Honduras, and he said it was being funded by outside groups, and even from Venezuela … So the American people, I think, see through this—they understand this is not a

title: 2014 American immigration crisis
text: billion and resulted in discussions on how to interpret or revise the 2008 law in order to expedite handling large numbers of unaccompanied children. In November 2017, the Trump administration ended the Central American Minors Program which allowed eligible minors from the Northern Triangle to apply for the refugee resettlement or parole in the United States, thereby limiting the flow of Central Americans to the United States. While the U.S. had numerous domestic policies for dealing with the massive rise in immigration, on July 8, 2014 President Obama also requested funding for "the repatriation and reintegration of migrants to countries

title: Foreign aid to Haiti
text: months of his term. In his first State of the Union address, President Trump iterated a theme of "America First," proclaiming his dislike of programs like democracy promotion and generic humanitarian aid aimed largely at countries in Latin America. President Trump insists that Congress pass laws to ensure that "American foreign-assistance dollars always serve American interests, and only go to "America’s friends." However, only about one percent of the United States federal budget goes to foreign aid — 40% considered security assistance, rather than economic or humanitarian aid. Canada–Haiti relations are relations between Canada and Haiti. During the unsettled period

title: Malcolm Turnbull
text: Rica in response to a Central American migration crisis. In November, Turnbull and Peter Dutton announced that Australia would accept 1,250 refugees from Central America, in exchange for the U.S. accepting refugees on Nauru and Manus. Turnbull and President Donald Trump held a phone conversation on 28 January 2017, the transcript of which later leaked to the "Washington Post". On 2 February 2017, Trump tweeted that Obama's deal was "dumb". US Vice-President Mike Pence later confirmed that the United States would honour the deal, subject to 'extreme vetting' of asylum seekers. Australia began receiving Central American asylum seekers in July

title: Central American migrant caravans
text: Mujica was arrested in Ciudad Hidalgo on 22 October while walking with a group of migrants to a church. Mujica was pulled out of a crowd of migrants by Mexican authorities and pushed into a white van. According to Pueblo Sin Fronteras, he was not involved in organizing the caravan and was conducting humanitarian work in Tapachula. Also on 22 October, President Donald Trump said the U.S. would begin curtailing tens of millions of dollars in aid to three Central American nations, because they did not stop the caravan. President Trump also threatened to send the U.S. military to close

title: Foreign policy of the Donald Trump administration
text: will not be deterred and will vigorously defend our industry." The Canadian dollar fell to a 14-month low on the announcement. During a summer 2017 meeting about immigration, Trump objected to receiving immigrants from Haiti, reportedly saying "they all have AIDS." The White House denied the report. During a meeting with congressional leaders on January 11, 2018, Trump complained about the number of immigrants from Haiti, saying "Why do we need more Haitians, take them out." He then referred to Haiti and El Salvador, as well as unspecified African nations, as "shithole countries", although specific facts and details about the

title: Presidency of Donald Trump
text: August 2017. The RAISE Act sought to reduce legal immigration levels to the U.S. by 50% by halving the number of green cards issued, capping refugee admissions at 50,000 a year and ending the visa diversity lottery. In August 2017, the administration terminated a program that granted temporary legal residence to unaccompanied Central American minors. 2,714 individuals would need to renew their legal residence status through other more difficult immigrant channels. In November 2017, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) granted to 60,000 Haitians following the 2010 Haiti earthquake was revoked. In January 2018, the administration announced that approximately 200,000 Salvadorans,

title: Presidency of Donald Trump
text: prevented by US authorities from filing for asylum. During the 2018 mid-term election campaign, Trump sent nearly 5,600 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border for the stated purpose of protecting the United States against a caravan of Central American migrants. The Pentagon had previously concluded that the caravan posed no threat to the U.S. The border deployment was estimated to cost as much as $220 million by the end of the year. With daily warnings from Trump about the dangers of the caravan during the mid-terms, the frequency and intensity of the caravan rhetoric declined dramatically after election day. In May

title: Central American Minors Program
text: unaccompanied minors entering the United States from Central America and being victims of violent crimes during the journey, the Obama administration initiated programs that partnered with Central American governments to combat the violence that influences minors to migrate to the United States. However, the violence in the Northern Triangle only escalated in 2015, prompting the Obama administration to expand The Central American Minors Program in 2016. The parole portion of the CAM program was terminated in August 2017, and new applications for the refugee portion of the program were no longer accepted as of November 9, 2017. President Obama’s attempt

title: 2014 American immigration crisis
text: to receive all of the funding allotted to them. In a statement made on the inauguration of Jimmy Morales as the President of Guatemala, the Obama administration addressed certain criteria that the Northern Triangle countries (Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala) would be expected to uphold in order to receive assistance from the United States. These criteria were: Combat corruption and strengthen public institutions, improve civilian jurisdiction and counter activities of criminal organizations, protect human rights, support programs to promote equitable growth, implement effective civil society consultations, and increase government revenues. These criteria have reflected long-standing obstacles for prosperity in these countries,

title: 2014 American immigration crisis
text: particularly those relating to equality, human rights, and collecting government revenues needed to fund police. While funding for these efforts has been fairly consistent the past two years, the FY2018 budget proposed by President Trump would cut aid to these countries by roughly 30%. It is hard to know what the full implications of this cut to funding would be, but experts have claimed that it would most likely result in backsliding of any progress made in the governance of these countries. One cause of the influx of immigrants with children was word of mouth in Central America that families

title: Opinion polling on the Donald Trump administration
text: During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump called for the suspension of immigration to the United States from seven "terror prone" countries; in January 2017, he signed an executive order partially implementing that policy and halving annual U.S. refugee intake from 100,000 to 50,000. In January 2017, Donald Trump issued an executive order that would block federal funding to "sanctuary cities". Donald Trump has said he plans to dramatically reduce United States funding to the United Nations and UN programs. In January 2017, Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact. A Pew Research Center global poll

title: Immigration policy of Donald Trump
text: to the children. Numerous religious groups and figures voiced opposition to the policy. Forty Democratic United States Senators sent a letter to President Trump urging him to "rescind this unethical, ineffective, and inhumane policy and instead prioritize approaches that align with our humanitarian and American values." In June, a national protest was held which drew hundreds of thousands of protesters from all 50 states in more than 600 towns and cities. According to a PBS Frontline investigative report, almost 3,000 mostly Central American children were separated from their families before the practice was ended by a judicial order in June.

title: Central American Minors Program
text: in trying to mitigate the increase of Central American minors began in the summer of 2014 when he held a meeting with the presidents of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. In his remarks, Obama expressed that all of the countries have a “shared responsibility” when it comes to dealing with the violence in Central American countries and the impact it can have on children. The concept of “shared responsibility” was also expressed by Asylum and International Operations Associate Director Joseph Langlois after the CAM program was established with USCIS. He expressed that the both USCIS and the State Department have

title: Foreign policy of the Donald Trump administration
text: foreign intervention in the region, though Trump raised some questions about the option. However, when meeting with Latin American leaders during the seventy-second session of the United Nations General Assembly, President Trump discussed possible United States military intervention in Venezuela, to which they all denied the offer. Following these discussions, the Trump administration instead pursued targeted sanctions against officials within the Venezuelan government. During the campaign, Trump initially stated that the United States "made a terrible mistake getting involved [in Afghanistan] in the first place." But later that month he reversed his position, saying that the War in Afghanistan was

title: United States–Venezuela relations
text: to close operations. On August 11, 2017, President Trump said that he is “not going to rule out a military option” to confront the autocratic government of Nicolás Maduro and the deepening crisis in Venezuela. Venezuela’s Defense Minister, Vladimir Padrino López, immediately criticized Trump for his statement, calling it “an act of supreme extremism” and “an act of madness”. The Venezuelan Communications Minister, Ernesto Villegas, said Trump’s words amounted to “an unprecedented threat to national sovereignty”. President Maduro's son, Nicolás Maduro Guerra, stated during the 5th Constituent Assembly of Venezuela session that if the United States were to attack Venezuela,

title: First 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency
text: New Hires, to ensure that recipients of federal means-tested programs like Unemployment Insurance, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Earned income tax credit (EITC), and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) are eligible, thereby reducing government waste and increasing accountability. Beginning in January, the Trump administration used the 1996 Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn regulations—some of them major—finalized during the final months of Obama's tenure. By April 6, Trump had signed into law 11 resolutions of disapproval under the CRA, after they were passed by the Republican majority in the House and Senate. Under the Congressional Review Act, Congress can

title: Samuel Rodriguez
text: Inauguration of President Trump. Rodriguez has had several meetings with Trump administration officials to discuss comprehensive immigration reform, which includes both securing the border and providing a path to citizenship for current immigrants. In a letter acquired by Politico in January 2017, Sam Rodriguez was one of several evangelical leaders that pressed President Trump to reconsider the suspension of the refugee resettlement program that temporarily prevented refugees from several countries from emigrating to the U.S. The letter argued that the program provided a lifeline to many oppressed individuals and an opportunity for churches to minister to them. On January 25,