Biden ends agreements to send asylum-seekers to Central American countries

By Anna Giaritelli

Published February 7, 2021 2:10am ET

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Biden ends agreements to send asylum-seekers to Central American countries — Honduras migrants, part of the caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, walk on a road in Tapachula, Chiapas State, Mexico, Friday, Jan. 18,2019. Hundreds of Central American migrants are walking and hitchhiking through the region as part of a new caravan of migrants hoping to reach the United States. | (Marco Ugarte/AP)

The Biden administration is immediately halting a Trump-era program that allowed the U.S. government to send asylum-seekers who arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border to one of three Central American countries.

The State Department announced Saturday that the Asylum Cooperative Agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras had been suspended, no longer allowing the United States to forward migrants back to those three countries.

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