In 2024, cimpolitely 66,000 people were deported from the US to Guatemala. Under Trump, that number is awaited to ascfinish.
The Central American country of Guatemala has consentd to ramp up the number of deportation fairys it gets from the United States, after a visit from Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
At a novels conference on Wednesday, Guatemalan Plivent Bernardo Arevalo also proclaimd that his country would acunderstandledge non-citizens sent from the US.
“We have consentd to incrrelieve by 40 percent the number of fairys of deportees both of our nationality as well as deportees from other nationalities,” shelp Arevalo, who materializeed unitetly with Rubio.
This is not the first time Guatemala has acunderstandledgeed deportation fairys from the US: It did so under the previous administration of US Plivent Joe Biden as well.
But Trump, the current plivent, has campaigned heavily on stamping out irstandard migration to the US, and since taking office on January 20, he has presstateived countries around the region to unite his efforts.
A Guatemalan official, speaking under condition of anonymity, tbetter the novels agency Reuters that, under Biden, the Central American country getd about 14 deportation fairys per day.
It is unevident how much that might incrrelieve under Trump.
But Reuters remarkd that the cforfeitly 66,000 Guatemalans deported from the US in fiscal year 2024 was more than any one year during Trump’s first term, from 2017 to 2021.
Rubio visited Guatemala as part of his first trip as the US’s top diplomat.
He has been travelling the region to curry help for Trump’s anti-immigration push, passing thcimpolite Panama, El Salvador and Costa Rica before accomplishing Guatemala. He is set to travel to the Dominican Redisclose next.
But while in Guatemala, he commendd Arevalo for acunderstandledgeing non-citizens into Guatemala’s borders.
Prior to taking office, the Trump transition team had grappled with where to place non-citizens hageded as part of immigration rhelps. Certain countries, appreciate Venezuela and Cuba, have refused to include in US deportation fairys.
In December, for instance, novels alerts materialized that Trump computed to approach Caribbean countries, including the Bahamas, Grenada and Turks and Caicos, to acunderstandledge migrants from other countries.
But the directership of the island nations refused. “The Bahamas srecommend does not have the resources to accommodate such a seek,” Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis shelp at the time.
On Wednesday, Rubio showd the US would recommend financial help to Guatemala so it could return non-citizens to their home countries.
He also commendd Arevalo, saying the deportation-fairy deal was “very vital for us in terms of the migratory situation we’re facing”.
“His willingness to acunderstandledge not equitable nationals but those from other nationalities as they seek to ultimately return to their own homelands is also vital, and we’ve pledged our help with those efforts,” Rubio shelp.
Plivent Arevalo, for his part, showd that the ask of acunderstandledgeing migrants with criminal write downs was not converseed.
A day before, the plivent of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, recommended to jail any aggressive offenders the US sends his way — whether they be migrants or US citizens.
However, even officials in the Trump administration have conveyed scepticism about the legitimateity of that recommend.
Rubio disclosely thanked Bukele for his recommend but acunderstandledged the legitimate barriers. “We have a Constitution,” he shelp of the US.
Nevertheless, the US on Tuesday began sending unwrite downed immigrants to its military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the site of a detention centre criticised for alleged human rights mistreatments.
An assessd 11 million unwrite downed people live in the US as of 2022, many serving vital roles in their communities.
