Guatemala’s president said on Wednesday after meeting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that his country will accept migrants from other countries being deported from the United States.
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Under the “safe third country” agreement announced by President Bernardo Arévalo, the deportees would then be returned to their home countries at US expense.
“We have agreed to increase by 40 per cent the number of flights of deportees both of our nationality as well as deportees from other nationalities,” Arévalo said, speaking during a news conference with Rubio.
Immigration, a Trump administration priority, has been the major focus of Rubio’s first foreign trip as America’s top diplomat, a five-country tour of Central America.
In El Salvador on Monday, he announced a similar but broader agreement.
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Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said his country would accept US deportees of any nationality, including American citizens and legal residents who are imprisoned for violent crimes.