FILE PHOTO: Honduran migrants, sent back to Guatemala from the United States under an Asylum Cooperative Agreement (ACA), sit at the table after arriving at Casa del Migrante shelter in Guatemala City, Guatemala March 5, 2020. REUTERS/Fabricio Alonso
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration said on Saturday it was immediately suspending Trump-era asylum agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, part of a bid to undo his Republican predecessor's hardline immigration policies.
In a statement, State Department Secretary Antony Blinken said the United States had "suspended and initiated the process to terminate the Asylum Cooperative Agreements with the Governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras as the first concrete steps on the path to greater partnership and collaboration in the region laid out by President Biden."
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