White House Offers Millions to Central America to Halt Immigration

The White House on Friday announced tens of millions of dollars of additional funding for Central American governments to address the root causes of migration that have led to a surge of migrants, many of them children, into the United States.

The United States said it would launch a $40 million program to improve security in Guatemala to reduce pressures forcing migration to United States and a $25 million program to provide services to youth in El Salvador who are vulnerable to organized-crime pressure, the White House said in a statement.