Guatemala avoids Trump threat of sanctions with new migration deal 0 SHARES Share it! Morales said on Facebook that the agreement had headed off the threat of “drastic sanctions” against Guatemala. Guatemala’s Constitutional Court had ruled that a safe third country deal could not be signed without prior approval from the country’s Congress, which is on a summer recess. Migrants who arrive in the United States who have not first sought asylum in Guatemala will be returned to Guatemala, McAleenan said. “But Guatemala can neither offer a safe nor fair and full process and nobody could plausibly argue otherwise,” Gelernt said.

Source: Manila Bulletin July 26, 2019 23:03 UTC