The Trump administration is sending dozens of Homeland Security agents and investigators to Guatemala as it aims to slow illegal immigrants from coming to the U.S from Central America.

The Homeland Security employees will be “advisers” to Guatemala’s national police and migration authorities and will try to stop human smuggling operations, the Washington Post reported Friday.

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