Guatemala's refugee agency meets only sporadically and operates on a bare-b...
GUATEMALA CITY - Guatemala’s refugee agency meets only sporadically and operates on a bare-bones basis, adding to doubts about how the crime-wracked, impoverished Central American country will cope with a surge in asylum-seekers under a deal signed with Washington.
Mexico has so far refused, but under pressure from Trump it has accepted taking in Central American migrants while their applications for asylum in the United States are processed by U.S. courts. Decisions about whether to grant asylum fall to Guatemala’s National Commission for Refugees , an agency represented by officials from the ministries of foreign relations, interior, labor and migration who meet periodically to adjudicate claims.
Between 2002 and 2014, the document said, CONARE analyzed an average of seven cases per year. From 2015, applications began accelerating, and so far in 2019, CONARE has received 226. But none of those have yet been approved, said Mena.
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