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Guatemala gives Rubio second deportation deal for returning migrants
Guatemalan President Bernardo Arvalo said Wednesday his country will accept migrants from other countries who are being deported from the United States, the second deportation deal that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reached during a Central America trip that has been focused mainly on immigration. Under the agreement announced by Arvalo, the deportees would 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, Arvalo said at a news conference with Rubio. Previously, including under the Biden administration, Guatemala had been accepting on average seven to eight flights of its citizens from the US per week. Under President Donald Trump it's also been one of the countries that have had migrants returned on US military planes. El Salvador announced a similar but broader agreement on Monday. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said his coun
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Taiwan condemns China's interference in Guatemala diplomatic ties
In response, Taiwan's MOFA dismissed China's assertions as 'absurd' and condemned its efforts to undermine Taiwan-Guatemala relations by misinterpreting UN Resolution 2758 and promoting
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US government to nearly double temporary visas for non-agricultural jobs
Twenty thousand of the H-2B visas will be granted to workers from the Central American countries of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala as well as Haiti
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Narcotics trafficking, violence, poverty leading migrant caravans to US?
Why does the migrant caravan exist? And how did it come to be?
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