President Trump says he wants to cut immigration to the U.S., particularly the flow of migrants seeking asylum at the southern border. But his latest plan to cut foreign aid, announced with a hasty explanation this weekend, will likely only make the problem worse.

Speaking to reporters during a trip to Florida , Trump explained, “I’ve ended payments to Guatemala, to Honduras and El Salvador. No more money is going there anymore.” He added, “We were giving them $500 million….We were paying them tremendous amounts of money, and we’re not paying them anymore because they haven’t done a thing for us.”