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35 thousand Guatemalans have been deported from the United States this year (2019)

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1. Family Members are seen outside the Deportation Processing Center of the Immigration Directorate, annexed to the Guatemalan Air Force, as they wait for their relatives who migrated to the United States but where detained and stopped in U.S. Soil where they spent at least 4 months in detention center, before being deported back to Guatemala this week. 118 deportees came in just one flight, where at least two unaccompanied minors were among the group. According to Human Rights and Immigration Organizations, as well as the Guatemalan government's agency for Attention of Immigrants (CONAMIGUA) at least 35 thousand Guatemalans have been deported from January to July of 2019. Recently, the Guatemalan government signed an Asylum deal, receiving pressure and threats to impose tariffs and taxes on remittances, from U.S. President Donald Trump and Washington D.C. The Asylum Deal, which makes Guatemala, a small Central-American country, a Third Safe Country for Immigrants asking for asylum and residence in the United States, will force migrants already at the U.S. Border and looking to cross over, to return and have their asylum processed be carried out here. Also, any migrants on transit to the U.S. Will have to stay in Guatemala and do the asylum process here.

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