San Salvador – US Secretary Marco Rubio was visiting Al Salvador on Monday, so that in the event of the government’s main foreign development agency, to meet the demands of the Trump administration for a large crack on immigration between the upheaval in Washington. A friendly government can be pressurized.
Rubio arrived in San Salvador soon after seeing an American-funded exile with 43 migrants from Panama to Colombia. Rubio warned of Panama that the US would work to do so by the government immediately went to reduce or eliminate China’s presence in the Panama Canal.
The migration, however, was the main issue of the day as it would be for the next stop at the next stop at the Costa Rica, Guatemala and Dominican Republic after the Panama and Al Salvador.
President Donald Trump’s administration gives priority to prevent people from traveling to the United States and has worked with regional countries to promote immigration enforcement on its borders and accepted the exile from the United States. .
An idea is floating, interacting on a so-called “safe third country” agreement with Al Salvador that will allow non-Salwadorian migrants to deport Al Salvador in the US. Officials have suggested that this may be an alternative to the Venezuela gang who should refuse to accept Venezuela convicted for crimes in the United States.
Human rights activists have warned, however, Al Salvador lacks a consistent policy for the treatment of refugee and refugees and such an agreement may not be limited to violent criminals.
Manual Flores, general secretary of the Left Opposition Party, Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, criticized any such scheme, stating that the region is “backyard to dump garbage” of Washington.
The exile flight Rubio saw loaded in Panama City that it was seen carrying the migrants detained by the Panamian officials after illegally crossing the Darren Gap from Colombia. The Foreign Department says that such a message of detention is sent. The US has provided a financial assistance of about $ 2.7 million in flights and tickets to Panama as an agreement was signed to fund them.
Rubio was on Termac for the departure of the flight, taking 32 men and 11 women back to Colombia. It is unusual for the state secretary that they can personally see such law enforcement operations, especially in front of cameras.
“Mass migration is one of the great tragedies in the modern era,” Rubio said, speaking later in a nearby building. “It affects countries around the world. We believe that many people seeking mass migration often suffer and suffer on the way, and it is not good for anyone. ,
Monday’s exile flight came when Trump was threatening to take action against nations that would not accept their citizens’ flights from the United States, and they refused to accept Colombia last week with penalty last week Had refused to do it. Panama has been more cooperative and has allowed the flights of the third country to go to the ground and sent the migrants back before reaching the United States.
“This is an effective way to prevent the flow of illegal migration of migration on a large scale, which is disastrous and unstable,” Rubio said. “And it was impossible to do with his friends and colleagues in Panama without a strong partnership. And we are going to continue it. ,
Their visit comes amidst a wide freeze in American foreign aid and stop-work order, which has shut down American-funded programs targeting illegal migration and crime in central American countries. The State Department said on Sunday that Rubio had approved exemption for some important programs in countries that they are watching, but the details of those people were not available immediately.
When Rubio was out of the country, employees of the US agency for International Development were instructed to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters on Monday, when billionaire Elon Musk announced that Trump agreed to close the agency to close him Had expressed
Thousands of USAID employees were already discontinued and the programs were discontinued. Rubio told reporters at San Salvador that he was now a USAID acting administrator, but he had handed over the right, so he was not running his day-to-day operation.
Change means that USAID is no longer an independent government agency as it was for decades – although its new situation will be challenged in court – and will go out of the state department by department officials.
In his comment, Rubio insisted that some and perhaps many USAID programs would continue in the new configuration, but the switch was necessary as the agency became unacceptable to the Executive Branch and Congress.
On his weekend discussion with the President of Panama on the Panama Canal, Rubio said that he hopes that Panamanian would pay attention to his and Trump’s warning on China. The Panamanis have emphasized Trump’s request to prevent the control of the American-built canal, which the US has changed in 1999, although they have agreed to get out of a Chinese infrastructure and development initiative.
“I think this is a delicate issue in Panama,” Rubio told reporters in San Salvador. “We don’t want to have a hostile and negative relationship with Panama,” he said. “I don’t believe that we do. And we had a clear and respectable conversation, and I hope it will give fruit and result in the coming days. ,
But back in Washington, Trump was less diplomat, he said that “China is involved with the Panama Canal. They will not last long and this is the way.”
“We wanted it back, or we’re going to be very strong, or we’re going to withdraw it,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “And will deal with China.”
As he is in the past, Trump again criticized the Carter Administration to sign the Treaty of the 1970s to prevent the control of the canal to Panama and said that it was an agreement that Panama “completely violated” “Done.
“They have agreed to some things, but I am not happy with it,” said Trump.