USA stops migration agreements with Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken: Stop the controversial migration agreement with Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador

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The new US administration of President Joe Biden cashes in another project from predecessor Donald Trump.

Foreign Minister Antony Blinken confirmed that the government has stopped the controversial asylum agreements with Central American countries.

According to the agreement, migrants who came to the USA through Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador had to apply for asylum there.

The agreement has now been suspended, so Blinken.

The process of completely ending the rule after the deadline has already expired has already been initiated.

Trump had taken a particularly tough course in migration policy and tried in various ways to make immigration to the USA more difficult and to seal off the country.

The building of a wall on the border with Mexico was the most prominent symbol of this policy.

Trump's successor Joe Biden has taken a fundamentally different course.

In the long term, for example, he wants to tackle migration from Central America more by combating the causes of flight and cooperating with the countries of origin.

Blinken said with regard to the suspended agreements that the move did not mean that the US border was open.

The new US administration wants to expand the possibilities of legal immigration.

The United States is still a country with borders and laws that have to be respected.

Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador - the predominantly poor and dangerous countries of what is known as the Northern Triangle of Central America - are the origin of the vast majority of the tens of thousands of people who try to cross the Mexican border into the United States without permission every month.

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