Washington
Less than a month after the end of his term, the president Donald Trump has the signing and entry into force of agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, countries that make up the Northern Triangle of Central America, which allow the return to those countries of migrants who cross their territory to U.S and apply for asylum.
These similarities are similar to Memorandum Migrant Protection (MPP), a program started by the government ofThe fact is, you don’t have to worry. Trump in 2019 with which tens of thousands of people arrived at the southern border of United States and who have applied for asylum, have been sent back to Mexico, where they have to wait for their application to be processed.
“Led by the president Trump, he Ministry of Homeland Security uses every tool at its disposal to mitigate the humanitarian and security crisis at the border, ” the acting secretary of state said in a statement. Homeland Security, Chad Wolf.
The agreements were initially signed in 2019 and the pact with Guatemala began to be implemented in September. The application of the agreements with The fact is, you don’t have to worry.The Savior and Honduras it was delayed until this month.
“The implementation of the agreements will strengthen the overall asylum capacity in the Northern Triangle countries and across the region, giving asylum seekers access to protection closer to home,” he added.
The entry into force of the agreements – known as HERE for its acronym in English – with the three Central American countries, it will make it possible to send “certain eligible migrants seeking humanitarian protection to any of the countries” with which the agreement was concluded.
According to him DHS, The four signatory countries “reaffirmed their commitment to combat mutual threats, including international organizations and gangs, migrant smugglers, drug trafficking and human trafficking”.
Critics of Immigration Policy Trump They pointed out that the MPP and now the appointments HERE They force migrants to wait for their asylum applications to be processed in areas where they are exposed to violence and, in many cases, to livelihood in camps with little protection and health care.
Migrant interest groups have reported that between November 2019 and March 2020, the government from EE.UU. returned to Guatemala about 1,000 people who applied for asylum, and only 2% of them applied for asylum after being sent to that country.
The vice president-elect of EE.UU, Kamala Harris, has criticized these agreements, but President-elect Joe Biden, who will take over the presidency on January 20, 2021, has announced no plans to reject or replace the asylum cooperation pacts.
On the government platform of the Democratic Party it is indicated that the Biden administration will seek “to expand efforts to register and process refugees for resettlement in U.S and other countries “.