Since late January, thousands of would-be asylum applicants have been
held up just outside of the U.S. border with Mexico, where they have
been forced to wait their turn to speak to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The growing humanitarian situation—camps for migrants are overcrowded, unhygienic, and dangerous—has renewed focus on Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s call
for a Central American Marshall Plan, through which $30 billion would
be channeled toward regional development in an effort to ease migration
pressures. López Obrador, popularly known as AMLO, has set a goal of
funding the plan by May, and U.S. President Donald Trump, eager to halt
immigration to the United States, agreed to participate to the tune of $5.8 billion....
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