Guatemala agrees to increase the number of deportation flights in the United States Migration news

In 2024, approximately 66,000 people were deported from the United States to Guatemala. Trump is expected to increase.

The Central American country Guatemala has agreed to increase the number of deportation flights it receives from the United States after visiting the Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

At a press conference on Wednesday, Guatemala President Bernardo Arevalo also announced that his country would accept non -iconic US sent.

“We have agreed to increase by 40 percent of the number of flights of the deported both our nationality and the deported by other nationalities,” said Arevalo, who appeared with Rubio.

This is not the first time Guatemala has accepted flights to deportation from the US: this is done by the previous US President Joe Biden administration.

But Trump, the current president, has severely strived to print irregular migration in the United States, and after taking office on January 20, he pressed the countries in the region to join his efforts.

A Guatemalan employee speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters news agency that under Biden, the Central American side receives about 14 deportation flights per day.

It is not clear how much can increase with Trump.

But Reuters noted that nearly 66,000 Guatemaulians deported from the United States in the fiscal 2024 was more than each year during the first term of Trump from 2017 to 2021.

Rubio visited Guatemala as part of her first trip as a top US diplomat.

He travels to the region to support curry about Trump's anti -immigration impetus, passing through Panama, El Salvador and Costa Rica before reaching Guatemala. He will then travel to the Dominican Republic.

But while he was in Guatemala, he praised Avava that he had accepted non -graduates within Guatemala.

Before taking office, the Trump transition team managed to place where to put non -icing, detained as part of the immigration raids. Some countries, such as Venezuela and Cuba, have refused to participate in the US deportment flights.

For example, in December, news reports emerged that Trump plans to turn to the Caribbean, including the Bahamas, Grenada and the Turks and Kaikos, to accept migrants from other countries.

But Island nations leadership refusedS “The Bahamas simply have no resources to comply with such a request,” said Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis at the time.

On Wednesday, Rubio said the United States would offer financial support to Guatemala in order to return non -regionalities in its home countries.

He also praised Arevalo, saying that the deportment deal is “very important to us in terms of the migrating situation we are facing.”

“His willingness to accept not only nationals but also those of other nationalities, as they seek to eventually return to their own homes is also important and we promised our support for these efforts,” Rubio said.

The President Arevalo, for his part, indicated that the issue of accepting migrants with criminal records had not been discussed.

The day before that President of El Salvador, the most bouquet, suggested that he close each abusers The United States is sending its path – whether they are migrants or US citizens.

However, even employees of the Trump administration have expressed skepticism about the legality of this proposal.

Rubio publicly thanked his bouquet for his proposal, but acknowledged legal barriers. “We have a constitution,” he told the US.

However, the United States on Tuesday began sending undocumented immigrants to its military base In Guantanamo Bay, CubaThe place of a detention center criticized for alleged human rights violations.

Approximately 11 million undocumented people live in the United States by 2022, many of which play vital roles in their communities.