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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -Guatemala will accept 40% more deportation flights from the United States, including both Guatemalan deportees and those of other nationalities, President Bernardo ...
Guatemala has pledged a 40% increase in deportation flights carrying Guatemalans and migrants of other nationalities from the United States, President Bernardo Arévalo announced Wednesday during ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump forged ahead with military deportation flights on Monday, sending another planeload of migrants to Guatemala a day after coming to the brink of a ...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo 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.
“We cannot refuse them and it is our obligation (to receive the migrants),” said Danilo Rivera, the director of Guatemala’s Immigration Institute. Jorge Santos of the Human Rights Convergence, a Guatemalan coalition, said the deportations should be handled exclusively by civilians, without the use of military planes.
A C-17 plane with 80 Guatemalan migrants departs from Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas on Jan. 30, 2025. The Guatemalans were in the U.S. illegally and were repatriated to their country on a military ...
More: As Trump plans mass deportation, Mexican views of migration harden. Guatemala has been particularly proactive in preparing for a second Trump term relative to neighbors El Salvador and ...
Guatemala's historic ethnic composition is mostly immigrant stock from Europe and as well as Asian and Africans brought during the era of slavery. Currently, the composition of Guatemala consists mostly of mestizos, Amerindians and Europeans, and to a lesser extent, Garifuna. In recent decades, immigration to Guatemala has led to an increase in ...