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El Salvador ready to accept asylum seekers sent from U.S. border, DHS says



Nick Miroff 13 hrs ago

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El Salvador ready to accept asylum seekers sent from U.S. border, DHS says


The Trump administration said Tuesday it has finalized an agreement reached last year with El Salvador that will enable the Department of Homeland Security to send asylum seekers from the U.S. border to the Central American nation, instead of allowing them to seek humanitarian protection in the United States.

© Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post

Evelyn Vega lays her head on Elmer Zelaya Gomez while their daughter Nayely Vega, rests next to them on the edge of the San Ysidro border crossing in May 2018 in Tijuana, Mexico, as they sought entry into the United States to seek asylum. A gang in his home country of El Salvador killed his son and threatened his family, he said.





Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele assented to the accord, known as an Asylum Cooperation Agreement, in September 2019, but the deal has yet to result in any actual transfer of asylum seekers. The Trump administration reached similar deals last year with Guatemala and Honduras, after a record surge of Central American families crossed the U.S. southern border seeking protection, overwhelming U.S. courts and processing capacity.

Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, traveled to El Salvador this week to finalize implementation plans for the agreement. Under the accord, “certain migrants requesting asylum or similar humanitarian protection at the U.S. border will be transferred to El Salvador to seek protection in El Salvador,” DHS said in a statement.

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Homeland security officials have insisted their intent is not to use the agreements to discourage vulnerable migrants from coming to the United States to find a safe place, but to allow them to reach safety closer to their home countries. In a statement, Wolf called the agreement “a critical step in the establishment of a truly regional approach to migration, and, more specifically, to the offer of protection to those migrants who are victims of persecution.”

El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala have some of the highest homicide rates in the world, and transnational gangs and criminal groups that operate in all three countries practice extortion, forced recruitment of minors and human trafficking to terrorize local populations, sending victims fleeing for their lives.


Under Bukele, El Salvador’s murder rate has dropped, but his government’s heavy hand and crackdown on dissent has raised concerns about creeping authoritarian rule.

“Implementation of the ACA will involve and facilitate cooperation between the two governments to expand El Salvador’s systems for offering humanitarian protections,” DHS said.

A report by Refugees International found extensive problems with the implementation of the agreement in Guatemala, where the United States sent nearly 1,000 asylum seekers between November 2019 and March 2020. Just 2 percent of the migrants who were returned to Guatemala applied to seek asylum there, with the rest apparently giving up and going home, according to the report.

Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris has criticized the agreements with Central American countries. President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment on its plans, but Biden’s detailed policy agenda for Central America makes no specific mention of canceling the accords.

Instead, Biden’s plans echo some of the same statements the Trump administration has made about allowing migrants to seek protection without undertaking the dangerous journey to the United States.
Biden’s Central America plan also calls for the restoration of an Obama-era program — canceled by Trump — that allowed U.S. embassies in the region to process requests for asylum from Central American minors. Notably, Biden’s plan also says his administration will “expand efforts to register and process refugees in the region for resettlement in the U.S. and other countries,” an indication that the incoming administration might look to keep the asylum agreements at least partly in place.


http://El Salvador ready to accept asylum seekers

They are all coached liars.

Load up buses and get them away from our border pronto.

They have Fake ID's. They cannot be vetted.

They can take their Fake ID's and relocate within their own countries.

Give them new identities and send them BACK!

Some manufacturing from China should be going to Southern Mexico and Central America so they can work and stay with their families back home where they belong.

Execute the gangs and cartel and get them out of our misery.