GUATEMALA CITY - Guatemala’s new president, Alejandro Giammattei, discussed how to curb illegal immigration and improve border security in a meeting with officials of the Trump administration before he was due to take office on Tuesday, as Washington pushes Giammattei to accept an asylum agreement.
“We will bring back the peace this country so dearly needs,” Giammattei told reporters on Monday, promising to overhaul the Central American nation’s security forces and restructure ministries. In a sign of the urgency of the relationship, Giammattei met with Wolf and Ross in his first bilateral meeting on Tuesday morning. Giammattei said in a tweet that he and Ross discussed investment and economic growth to stem immigration.
Guatemala is one of Latin America’s poorest and most unequal nations, with poverty rising since 2000 despite strong economic growth, according to the World Bank. U.S. officials have threatened it with economic consequences if it does not accept the Asylum Cooperation Agreement. Under the deal, implemented in November, the United States sends Hondurans and Salvadorans seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border to Guatemala to ask for refuge there instead.
CICIG helped topple sitting President Otto Perez on corruption charges in 2015 and put dozens of politicians and businessmen behind bars, before a backlash led Morales to drive the body from Guatemala in September.
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