The Trump administration has tried to deport Guatemalan children living in U.S. shelters or foster care.
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What is Guatemala saying about this?
In July, the head of Guatemala’s immigration service said the government was
looking to repatriate 341 unaccompanied minors who were being held in U.S. facilities.
During a news conference on Monday, Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo shed more light on the issue.
Arévalo said the country’s foreign affairs minister and ambassador to the United States toured detention facilities for minors and adults in the United States in March and were “very concerned,” especially about minors who were going to turn 18. The government decided it had to act in the best interest of the children to prevent them from being moved to adult detention centers. He said Guatemala told the U.S. that the government was willing to receive “all unaccompanied minors, who wanted to return to Guatemala voluntarily.”
Arévalo explained that his administration began working to identify the minors, their families and make arrangements for those willing to return, those who wanted to wait out their legal process in the U.S. and those who judges allowed to remain in the U.S. with a relative.
Guatemala is capable of receiving about 150 minors per week, he said. “It depends on our capacity to identify relatives to facilitate a safe return,” he said. The goal is that none of the children end up being institutionalized.
Its pretty obvious that libs are using this as a political football
These children are not Americans and do not belong in the US
The president of their actusl country is reasy to tske them bsck and reunite them with their real parents
Which has the added benefit of denying the corrupt for-profit NGOs of millions of dollars of income from our government to house them here