Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo announced on Feb. 5 that his nation would accept illegal immigrants from other countries being deported from the United States after meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Titled the “Safe Third Country” agreement, Guatemala’s acceptance would act as a step in the ultimate U.S. plan to return all deportees to their home country, which Arevalo said would be done at U.S. expense.
Guatemala is already cooperating with the United States in receiving both military and civilian deportation flights.
“We have agreed to increase by 40 percent the number of flights of deportees both of our nationality as well as deportees from other nationalities,” Arevalo said during a news conference with Rubio….