The Trump administration has struck a highly controversial deal with Guatemala, which will prevent some migrants fleeing their home countries from submitting asylum applications to the US
1 / 2 for asylum protection from the Central American nation instead of at the US border.Under the deal Guatemala has been declared a so-called “safe third country”.The Central American nation and the US have been negotiating the deal for months.Donald Trump earlier threatened to place trade tariffs on Guatemala if an agreement wasn’t reached.“We’ll either do tariffs or we’ll do something. We’re looking at something very severe with respect to Guatemala,” the US president said on Wednesday.
As part of the agreement the US will increase access to the the H-2A visa program for temporary agricultural workers from Guatemala. Rights groups and student organisations rallied against the agreement in Guatemala City, gathering in front of the constitutional court.
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