During a news conference with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday, President Bernardo Ar\u00e9valo of Guatemala said that his country will increase deportation flights bringing Guatemalans and migrants of other nationalities from the United States by 40%.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Guatemala has consented to establish a task force for border security and control along its eastern borders. According to Ar\u00e9valo, the force, which would be made up of army and National Police personnel, will be entrusted with combating “all forms of transnational crime.”<\/p>\n
Ar\u00e9valo stated that foreign nationals who enter Guatemala via deportation aircraft will be sent back to their places of origin, and that the United States and Guatemala would keep discussing how the process would proceed and how the US would assist.<\/p>\n
Rubio has expressed his support for the Central American country’s infrastructure development, according to Ar\u00e9valo. In order to negotiate agreements for economic investments in Guatemala, he added, his government would send a delegation to Washington in the upcoming weeks. He claimed that this would encourage Guatemalans to remain in their homeland rather than go to the US.<\/p>\n
According to Ar\u00e9valo, Guatemala has not discussed accepting criminals from the United States, as the president of El Salvador has proposed. Additionally, he maintained that his nation and the US have not achieved a “safe third country” arrangement, which would mandate that migrants who travel through Guatemala seek for asylum there instead of going on to the US.<\/p>\n
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