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U.S., Guatemala Reach Agreement on Asylum Seekers

7/29/19
from The Wall Street Journal,
7/28/19:

Pact requires migrants traveling through Guatemala on the way to the U.S. to seek asylum in the Central American nation.

Under pressure from the Trump administration, Guatemala agreed to become a gatekeeper for Central American asylum seekers trying to get to the U.S. The agreement would require that migrants traveling through Guatemala on the way to the U.S. seek asylum in Guatemala instead of at the U.S.-Mexico border. President Trump joined Guatemala’s interior minister, Enrique Degenhart, and acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan in the Oval Office to sign what White House officials said was a safe third-country agreement.

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