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[https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5327284/cuts-to-usaid-could-impact-trump-administration-efforts-to-curb-migration by John Otis 1/4/25 npr] | [https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5327284/cuts-to-usaid-could-impact-trump-administration-efforts-to-curb-migration by John Otis 1/4/25 npr] | ||
Stopping illegal immigration is one of President Trump's top priorities. That's why one of his administration's first big attention-getting moves in the name of cutting government - dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID - could actually work against that goal. That's because some of the agency's programs discourage migrants from heading to the U.S. Reporter John Otis has more. | Stopping illegal immigration is one of President Trump's top priorities. That's why one of his administration's first big attention-getting moves in the name of cutting government - dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID - could actually work against that goal. That's because some of the agency's programs discourage migrants from heading to the U.S. Reporter John Otis has more. | ||
=====U.S. aid cuts hit Ethiopia’s fragile Tigray region===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-aid-cuts-hit-ethiopias-fragile-tigray-region by Samuel Getachew 13/3/25 PBS NEWS] | |||
During its war with Tigray fighters that devastated the region in 2020-2022, Ethiopian government restrictions on the rebellious region reduced aid flows to a trickle. Then in 2023, U.S. and U.N. aid distributions of grain were halted for months over a corruption scandal. | |||
