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GuatemalaPresidentSaysNoDeal toSend MexicansThere

Associated Press

   GUATEMALA CITY - Outgoing Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales said
   Wednesdaythathis government had not agreed to receive Mexicans who
   sought asylum in the U.S.
   Morales, whose presidency ends next week, said he had told U.S.
   officials thatthe issuewould have to be negotiated with his successor.
   "It's more than clear, in the agreement it only lays out Salvadorans
   and Hondurans," Morales said. "The United States has talked about the
   possibility of including Mexican nationals, but that they have to
   discuss it with the next government. In the last visit we made to the
   White House with President[Donald]Trump we were clear saying that that
   negotiation had to be done with the new government."

   Aggressive U.S. move
   The U.S. government moved aggressively last year to curb the number of
   asylum seekers arriving at its southwest border. The majority came from
   Central America. The U.S. began making many of those requesting asylum
   wait out their cases in Mexico. Thenitforged agreements with Guatemala,
   Honduras and El Salvador that would allow it to send some asylum
   seekers there. The U.S. government argued that migrants should request
   asylum in the first country they entered, not wait until they arrived
   at the U.S. border.

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