The United States will bear the costs of foreigners sent to Honduras under the ACA agreement

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US will bear the costs for foreign migrants who are sent to Honduras as part of Asylum cooperation agreement (ACA), known as the “safe third country”, which entered into force in March this year, but with operational details completed only on 18 December 2020.

Work and funds for achievement HERE will be channeled through United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Unhcr) and International Organization for Migrants (IOM), as argued Lisandro Rosales, cancel al Honduras.

The main responsibility of illegal immigrants to touch honduras it will fall on him National Institute of Migration (INM), which is a link.

So far, honduras since then it has not received deported foreign migrants US, but with the entry into force and the terms being completed, it is only a matter of time before they arrive.

Guatemala it is the only country in the region that has already received it Honduran migrants and Salvadorans, allowing them to wait on their territory for the meeting to be attended US and submit your asylum application.

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1- 57% of illegal migrants who entered Honduras in 2019 are Cubans. Nicaraguans are the ones who have sought the most refuge in the country.
2- The purpose of the ACA is to prevent these migrants from waiting at the US border for answers to asylum and to do so from a safe third country.

What is ACA

Since last March 20, honduras and US apply HERE as part of a strategy to stop migrants from moving to the North American country. Guatemala and El Salvador also participated in the initiative.

With HERE, US He will have the power to send the three foreign countries from Central America that have arrived at his border to seek asylum and are waiting for a meeting. In case of honduras You could receive people from Guatemala, El Salvador, Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela to wait for the meeting.

The travel and accommodation expenses of these persons are the responsibility US In the case of meetings, US grants a period of six months to one year to provide assistance to migrants, that period should await foreigners in Honduras.

Democratic President-elect Joe Biden has already elected Alejandro Mayorkas as the future interim secretary of the United States. United States National Security, Chad F. Lup, and who will be in front HERE. Mayorkas played a relevant role during his tenure Barack Obama in the thaw negotiations with Cuba.

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