Darryl and U.H. the Weeds podcast from Vox.

President Trump is saying he's going to cut aid to three central American countries.

How come?

So Trump has expressed for a while frustration with those three countries, which are the

three countries that account for the current wave of migration to the U.S. going back

about five years or so.

Okay.

More common that people come from Guatemala or from Honduras, for example, then from

Mexico.

Trump blames those countries for not doing enough to stop their people from coming.

And the State Department has actually formally notified Congress that it will be cutting

off some aid as a kind of gesture of they're not doing enough for us.

So why should we do anything for them?

And these three countries are El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.

Let me go through the three and find out what the situation is on the ground starting

with El Salvador.

Of the three countries, it's the one that is currently sending the fewest people to

the U.S.

Okay.

There was actually a big decline, even as overall, unauthorized migration to the U.S. has

surged in the last few months.

El Salvador is sending fewer people, you know, substantially than it was a few years ago.

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