A potential agreement with Washington to turn Guatemala into a "safe third country" for asylum seekers has the Guatemalan opposition up in arms and experts scratching their heads. President Jimmy Morales is set to meet Monday in Washington with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump, and officials
GUATEMALA CITY — A potential agreement with Washington to turn Guatemala into a"safe third country" for asylum seekers has the Guatemalan opposition up in arms and experts scratching their heads.
But as both a source nation for migrants and asylum seekers trying to get to the United States and a transit country for people from other countries, it is in poor position to provide safety and economic opportunity to others when tens of thousands of its own citizens have fled just this year. And according to the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies, nearly 900,000 people suffer from malnutrition in the country.
Story continuesWashington has also wanted Mexico to become a"safe third country," something it has resisted. However it has allowed an expansion of a program under which thousands of asylum seekers are returned from the United States to Mexico to await resolution of their claims, including in dangerous border cities where gangs and cartels have a strong presence.
"It doesn't make sense that less than seven months he would be doing this negotiation with the United States," Muralles said."It's not his business anymore. What he wants is to protect himself from various crimes he has been implicated in."
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