Venezuela refugee crisis overwhelms Colombia: "We don't have the money"

[Bacchus4.0]

https://www.axios.com/venezuela-refugee-crisis-venezuela-875058de-1988-427b-9a8d-059303cd279d.html

Colombia expects the number of Venezuelan refugees within its borders to rise from an already staggering 1.4 million to 3 million by 2021 if the current crisis continues, Ambassador Francisco Santos told reporters at a briefing on Wednesday, adding, “to be very sincere, if it goes to 3 million, we don’t have the money.”

The big picture: Venezuela’s exodus now rivals Syria’s, and countries including Ecuador and Peru are taking steps to stem the flow of refugees. Not Colombia. “With this government, with this president, that’s going to be the policy: open doors,” Santos says.

While he said Colombia's handling of the crisis should be an example for the world, it is “causing huge problems, especially in the health budgets, the education budgets.”

“Even the smallest town in Colombia has Venezuelan migrants, and a lot of them,” Santos says. In big cities like Bogotá, “the musicality of the language in the streets is changing.”

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Another reason where the money for rump's so called f**king wall could go, to really help...

these people...indirectly, would keep people from crossing US borders in order to make a better life for themselves in their home countries. The US should be playing a bigger role in helping these people out, but in rump's world, no one else even exists, except for rump and his followers. Foreign policy on the part of rump's admin. is non-existent, other than no immigrants, zip, zero, etc.

[abqtommy]

2. Any ethical government would be willing to help provide physical and monetary support for the

Venezuelan refugees. I guess that leaves the U.S. out of it.