GUATEMALA CITY: US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a congressional delegation to Central America on Thursday as the Trump administration presses countries there to stop US-bound asylum seekers before they reach the US border.
US Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said this month that the United States wants similar agreements with Honduras and El Salvador, where Pelosi will also visit. Democrats have sharply criticised Trump's policies aimed at banning nearly all asylum-seekers from entry, warehousing detainees in crowded quarters and holding children separately from the adults they travelled with.Pelosi's office said in a statement that in Guatemala she will meet with representatives from government, the judiciary and rights groups during her trip.
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