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FILE - In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, file photo, a Border Patrol agent talks with a group suspected of having entered the U.S. illegally near McAllen, Texas. The Trump administration has quietly shut down the nation's asylum system for the first time in decades amid coronavirus concerns, largely because holding people in custody is considered too dangerous. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

US can soon start sending people seeking asylum to Honduras

By BEN FOX - Associated Press

Guatemalan citizens recently deported from the United States acknowledge reporters as they stand inside a temporary shelter where the deportees are waiting for their new coronavirus test results, in Guatemala City, Thursday, April 16, 2020. Guatemala's health minister said on Tuesday that deportees from the U.S. were driving up the country's COVID-19 caseload. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala official: 44 deportees tested positive for virus

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

A health worker exits an area of the closed La Aurora airport where the government is holding Guatemalan citizens deported from the United States in a temporary shelter as they wait their new coronavirus results, in Guatemala City, Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Guatemala's health minister said Tuesday that deportees from the United States were driving up the country's COVID-19 caseload, adding that on one flight some 75% of the deportees tested positive for the virus. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala expands testing of deportees arriving from US

By SONIA PÉREZ D. and BEN FOX - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 12, 2020 file photo, an immigration worker in an orange jacket and wearing a mask as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, carries a young Guatemalan migrant who was deported from the U.S., followed by another deportee, at La Aurora International airport in Guatemala City. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Guatemala: US deportations driving up COVID-19 cases

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

A young man, wearing a mask to protect himself from the spread of the new coronavirus, prays in front of the closed Candelaria church in Guatemala City, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. Catholics prepare to celebrate Holy Week amid measures to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, including cancelling all religious activities across the country. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala to resume deportation flights from US next week

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2nd deported Guatemalan tests positive for coronavirus

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A man wearing a protective mask reads newspaper in Guatemala City, Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei effectively closed off Guatemala late Monday to all non-Guatemalans or permanent residents and ordered a suspension of all non-essential activities. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala suspends US flights of deportees, asylum seekers

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

Pregnant 19-year-old dies trying to climb US border wall

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

In this Feb. 7, 2020 photo, a Honduran delivery driver stands for a portrait in Guatemala City, where U.S authorities sent him to apply for Guatemalan asylum rather than allowing him to apply in the U.S. Fearing for his life, the 25-year-old had fled to the United States-Mexico border and requested asylum. After nine days in custody, he was put on a plane in McAllen, Texas, and sent to Guatemala City. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

‘Deportation with a layover:’ US sends migrants to Guatemala

By SONIA PÉREZ D. and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei shakes hands with Mexican Senate President Monica Fernandez Balboa after addressing the senate members in Mexico City, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

In Mexico, Guatemala president urges trade to slow migration

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Central American migrants walk carrying a handmade U.S. flag and banners, after crossing the Suchiate River from Guatemala in Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. Hundreds of Central American migrants hoping to reach the United States marooned in Guatemala walked en masse across the river leading to Mexico in a second attempt to convince authorities there to allow them passage through the country. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Normalcy returns to Guatemala-Mexico border after caravan

By PETER ORSI - Associated Press

Honduran migrants who have agreed to be returned home, sit on a bus provided by the Guatemalan government in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. Hundreds of Central American migrants who entered southern Mexico in recent days have either been pushed back into Guatemala by Mexican troops, shipped to detention centers or returned to Honduras, officials said Tuesday. An unknown number slipped past Mexican authorities and continued north. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Migrants weigh limited options at Guatemala-Mexico border

By PETER ORSI and MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

With a line of Mexican National Guardsmen behind them, a couple of migrant children campout on the Mexican shore of the Suchiate river on the border with Guatemala, near Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. The migrants remained at the river's edge or stood in its muddy waters trying to decide what to do next, after being blocked from crossing en masse across the river. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico begins flying, busing migrants back to Honduras

By MARÍA VERZA and SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

Advocates: Honduran mother, children deported to Guatemala

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

One of 17 rescued tigers and lions from Guatemala circuses arrives at the Animal Defender International Wildlife Sanctuary in Winburg, South Africa, Tuesday Jan. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Abused circus animals arrive at South African sanctuary

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME - Associated Press

Honduran migrants get a ride on the back of a truck as they travel north in hopes of reaching the distant United States, in Quezaltepeque, Guatemala, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. The group departed San Pedro Sula on Jan. 15. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Marooned migrant caravan plan surge into Mexico

By Sonia Perez D. and Maria Verza - Associated Press

Mexican National Guardsmen look at the bridge spanning the Suchiate River in Ciudad Hidalgo, on the Mexican border with Guatemala, near Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020. Mexican authorities have closed a border entry point in southern Mexico after thousands of Central American migrants tried to push across a bridge between Mexico and Guatemala. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Thousands camp in Guatemala as Mexico blocks migrant path

By SONIA PEREZ D and MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 2, 2019, file photo, U.S. Border Patrol agents walk down the hallway of a new U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary facility near the Donna International Bridge in Donna, Texas. The U.S. government says it will deport a Honduran mother and her two sick children, both of whom are currently hospitalized, to Guatemala as soon as it can get them medically cleared to travel, according to court documents and the family’s advocates. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

US seeks to deport Honduran mom, sick children to Guatemala

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

A Mexican National Guard looks at local residents crossing the Suchiate River, near Ciudad Hidalgo, on the Mexican border with Guatemala, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. Border security forces in southern Mexico were preparing Friday for the expected arrival of hundreds of Central Americans traveling through Guatemala in hopes to reach United States. (AP Photo/Maria Verza)

Mexico blocks hundreds of migrants from crossing border span

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

Honduran migrants walking in a group stop before Guatemalan police near Agua Caliente, Guatemala, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, on the border with Honduras. Less-organized migrants, tighter immigration control by Guatemalan authorities and the presence of U.S. advisers have reduced the likelihood that the hundreds of migrants who departed Honduras will form anything like the cohesive procession the term “caravan” now conjures. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

Mexico readies for Central American migrants at south border

By MARÍA VERZA and SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press