Deportation With a Layover: Failure of Protection Under the U.S.-Guatemala Asylum Cooperative Agreement

Published by Refugees International and Human Rights Watch on May 19, 2020.

Based on fieldwork in Guatemala, researchers piece together what happened to 939 Salvadoran and Honduran asylum-seekers whom U.S. authorities sent to Guatemala between November 2019 and March 2020 under a “safe third country agreement.”

Tags: Asylum, Guatemala, Safe Third Country Agreements