https://thehill.com/policy/international/americas/537697-us-ending-asylum-deals-with-three-central-american-nationsSecretary of State Antony Blinken announced Saturday that the U.S. will terminate asylum agreements the Trump administration entered with three Central American nations.
Under the Trump-era policy, numerous asylum-seekers looking for refuge at the U.S.-Mexico border were required to first seek asylum in El Salvador, Guatemala or Honduras.
The U.S. has “suspended and initiated the process to terminate the Asylum Cooperative Agreements with the Governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras as the first concrete steps on the path to greater partnership and collaboration in the region laid out by President Biden,” Blinken said in a statement.
The Trump administration reached the agreement in 2019 as part of its efforts to restrict immigration and reduce the number of refugees entering the U.S. It was never formally enacted between the U.S. and Honduras or El Salvador, according to the State Department, and the coronavirus pandemic has suspended all transfers between the U.S. and Guatemala since last March.
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