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A man sticks a posters showing a cartoon of the Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales with the word &quot;traitor&quot; during a press conference organized by civil society groups in front of the Constitutional Court in Guatemala City, Friday, July 26, 2019. The Trump administration signed an agreement with Guatemala Friday that will restrict asylum applications to the U.S. from Central America. (AP Photo/ Oliver de Ros)

Guatemalan activists protest migrant asylum pact with US

By SONNY FIGUEROA - Associated Press

President Donald Trump, joined by acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, right, shakes hands with Guatemalan Interior Minister Enrique Degenhart in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 26, 2019. Trump announced that Guatemala is signing an agreement to restrict asylum applications to the U.S. from Central America. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

US, Guatemala sign agreement to restrict asylum cases

By ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 26, 2019. Trump announced that Guatemala is signing an agreement to restrict asylum applications to the U.S. from Central America.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

U.S. inks deal to send asylum-seekers back to Guatemala

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan speaks at a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump hammers Guatemala, as DHS head offers praise

By LUIS ALONSO LUGO and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

Mexican authorities stop a migrant caravan that had earlier crossed the Mexico - Guatemala border, near Metapa, Chiapas state, Mexico, Wednesday, June 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Trump vows to punish Guatemala after immigration deal falls through

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks during the &quot;Presidential Social Media Summit&quot; in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, July 11, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump threatens Guatemala after its court blocks asylum deal

By JILL COLVIN and SONIA PEREZ D. and PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2019 file photo, Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales talks with Canada's ambassador Rita Marija Rudaitis-Renaud during a welcome ceremony for ambassadors in Guatemala City. A potential agreement with Washington to turn Guatemala into a “safe third country” for asylum seekers has the Guatemalan opposition up in arms and experts scratching their heads. President Morales is set to meet Monday, July 15, in Washington with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump, and officials there have said “safe third country” is on the table, though not a done deal. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Jimmy Morales meeting with Trump at White House postponed

Associated Press

Trump meeting with Guatemalan president rescheduled

Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2019 file photo, Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales talks with Canada's ambassador Rita Marija Rudaitis-Renaud during a welcome ceremony for ambassadors in Guatemala City. A potential agreement with Washington to turn Guatemala into a “safe third country” for asylum seekers has the Guatemalan opposition up in arms and experts scratching their heads. President Morales is set to meet Monday, July 15, in Washington with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump, and officials there have said “safe third country” is on the table, though not a done deal. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Guatemala seen as ill-prepared to absorb US-bound refugees

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

A Honduran boy, who is waiting with his family to request asylum, rests on an air mattress at the entrance to the Puerta Mexico international bridge in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, Mexico, Friday, June 28, 2019. Hundreds of migrants from Central America, South America, the Caribbean and Africa have been waiting, most in rented rooms or a distant shelter, for their number to be called at the bridge in downtown Matamoros, to have the opportunity to request asylum in the U.S.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Guatemala court asked to block ‘safe 3rd country’ with US

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

Byron Xol, an immigrant from Guatemala, plays with a balloon before his birthday party Sunday, June 23, 2019, in Buda, Texas. Byron, now staying with the Sewell family, was separated from his father, David Xol, in May 2018, during the Trump's administration wide-scale separation of immigrant families. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

One boy’s tale of family separation heads to court

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

Migrant children eat a meal provided by United in Christ Ministry of Los Fresnos, Texas, a group who brings dinner every Thursday in rotation with other volunteers who organize to provide daily meals, at the Puerta Mexico international bridge, in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, Mexico, Thursday, June 27, 2019. Mexican police, soldiers and National Guard have recently been raiding hotels, buses and trains to round up migrants, creating scenes that have caused an outcry in the United States, but in Mexico there has been little backlash despite the historical sympathy for the plight of migrants. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico extends $100 million reforesting program to Honduras

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FILE - In this June 18, 2019, file photo, rafts carry passengers and goods across the Suchiate River between Tecun Uman, Guatemala, and Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, as the Tacana volcano stands in the background at sunrise. The governments of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were conspicuously silent during the nearly two weeks that Mexico twisted in the wind under the threat of crippling tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump. In Tecun Uman, there was no sign of authorities even making a show of trying to dissuade people from crossing into Mexico illegally aboard rafts. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Central American officials avoid focus on immigration

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2018, file photo, Honduran asylum seekers are taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents after the group crossed the U.S. border wall into San Diego, Calif., seen from Tijuana, Mexico. Immigrant rights activists on Friday, June 28, 2019, asked a U.S. judge to block a new Trump administration policy that would keep thousands of asylum seekers locked up while they pursue their cases, instead of giving them a chance to be released on bond. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

‘And now we are alone’: Extended family separated at border

By COLLEEN LONG and AMY TAXIN - Associated Press

Small plane crashes in Guatemala, 2 US missionaries injured

By SONNY FIGUEROA and MICHAEL KRUMHOLTZ - Associated Press

A Haitian woman carries her daughter as she waits outside the Mexican Commission for Migrant Assistance office, to get the documents needed that allow them to stay in Mexico, in Tapachula, early Thursday, June 20, 2019. The flow of migrants into southern Mexico has seemed to slow in recent days as more soldiers, marines, federal police, many as part of Mexico's newly formed National Guard, deploy to the border under a tougher new policy adopted at a time of increased pressure from the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

Mexico, El Salvador to cooperate on reducing migration

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

Students create, explore new worlds through virtual reality

By JO KROEKER - Associated Press

Male migrants bed down for the night on mattresses on the ground in the entry court of the Good Shepherd shelter in Tapachula, Mexico, Tuesday, June 18, 2019. Mexico's ramped-up effort to curb the flow of Central American migrants to the United States so far hasn't eased the burden on the dozens of independent humanitarian shelters like Good Shepherd that are scattered along migration routes through the country. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico’s migrant shelters overwhelmed in crackdown

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

Official: Guatemala hasn’t agreed to be safe third country

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Sandra Torres, presidential candidate of the National Unity of Hope party, UNE, shows her ink-stained finger to the press after casting her vote during general elections in Guatemala City, Sunday, June 16, 2019. Guatemalans are voting for their next president in elections plagued by widespread disillusion and distrust, and as thousands of their compatriots flee poverty and gang violence to seek a new life in the United States. The former first lady is expected to finish first but without enough votes to win in the first round. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

Sandra Torres, ex-first lady, leads Guatemalan president vote; runoff likely

By Sonia Perez D. - Associated Press