The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo de Leónannounced Wednesday after his meeting with the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubiothat your country He will receive deportees from the United States, regardless of his nationality. These individuals will be, subsequently already expenses from the Trump administration, returned to their respective countries of origin.
At the same time, Guatemala committed to Increase the flights by 40% Destined to these operations, in an attempt to support the fight against illegal immigration initiated by the new Republican government, on January 20, although it did not specify how many frequencies it is. Instead, he just mentioned that his cabinet already started “conversations with different companies and the private sector to identify those that are willing to absorb migrants ”and reinsert them in the labor market.
These actions, said Arévalo de León, are framed in a New bilateral agreement reached with blond but They do not imply that Guatemala operates as a “third country”as is known to the nations that function as an alternative destination to which a country refers to asylum applicants to those who cannot attend, given that foreigners will not remain in Guatemala.
In this way, he distanced himself from the policy adopted by the former president Jimmy Morales Who, during Trump’s first mandate, accepted this immigration status.
“The theme ‘Safe Country’ does not exist, it was not treated (at this Wednesday’s meeting with blond), neither in title nor in content. What we have now is a new migratory arrangement “he held in that regard.
This week, within the framework of his tour of the region, the Secretary of State visited El Salvador where, after an encounter with the president Nayib Bukelehe also informed that part of immigrants would be deported through efforts with this country. The agreement, however, is broader than the one announced in recent hours since Bukele in turn accessed Host in their prisons undocumented migrants who have committed crimes in the United States already American condemnations for serious crimes.
Much of these individuals will go to Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), the largest maximum security prison in the region, opened in 2023 in Tecoluca, 75 kilometers southeast of the capital. The space has capacity for about 40,000 inmates but still has about 25,000 seats.
In exchange for this management, the government will charge Washington A “relatively low but significant rate, which will make our entire prison system sustainable”, The Central American president explained, while celebrating that “our system is already designed to contain and rehabilitate these individuals.”
“Whether from M-13 or Aragua train, they will be deported and housed in Salvadoran prisons”said Rubio, who stressed that “no country has ever done an offer of friendship like this”
“It is a much greater agreement (than those achieved in 2019), which is not precedents in the history of relations, not only of the United States with El Salvador, but,” I believe – with all Latin America, “he added.
(With information from AP, EFE and Reuters)
