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VOA InterviewsGuatemala President-elect Alejandro Giammattei

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   An asylum deal with the United States would "necessarily" depend on
   economic benefits to its country, Guatemala president-elect Alejandro
   Giammattei told VOA's Latin America Division on Monday.

   After weeks of intense, and at times turbulent, U.S.-Guatemala
   negotiations on a "safe third country" asylum deal, the Trump
   Administration signed such an agreement with Guatemala's outgoing
   government on July 26, two weeks before a second and final round of
   presidential elections in that country.

   The deal, already facing legal barriers from Guatemala's Constitutional
   Court, would bar migrants who pass through Guatemala from applying for
   asylum in the United States if they did not apply in Guatemala first, a
   measure that would largely affect Honduran and Salvadoran migrants,
   among others.

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