Because Honduras, Guatamala and El Salvador are responsible for the bulk of the recent mass influx of economic migrants trying to and often successfully crossing the southern US border, the State Department under Trumps orders is planning on cutting about half a billion dollars in aid to those countries. On one hand, it would seem better to focus on the road those people take to get to the US: Mexico. Make it painful for the Mexican government to let armies of colonizers cross their territory, then the road will close and the invasion will slow.
But then on the other hand, half a billion dollars per year isn’t exactly chump change. Compared to the whole US Federal budget it’s a drop in the bucket that will be simply lost in the shuffle, but I’m sure some good use could be made of that money. Obviously, the most important thing the US could do with that money would be to promptly earmark it for the express and specific purpose of establishing an interplanetary colonization and industrialization program; using SpaceX systems, the US could probably have a sizable little colony on Mars inside of a decade and corner the market on asteroid mining within two.
Sadly, the US government isn’t that forward thinking. But what *could* we do with that money for relevant purposes? I just looked up the cost of flights… Dallas-Forth Worth to San Salvador runs $164 for a one-way economy seat. At that rate, the United States could use that half a billion dollars to deport three MILLION people a year.
We are forever being told that vast numbers of economic migrants are a boon to the economy. Imagine what three million people a year being deposited into El Salvador could accomplish. It would be cruel, nay, racist and elitist to deny El Salvador and its neighbors that boon.