After U.S. meeting, Guatemala sees end to remote border deportations

FILE PHOTO: Families queue at a migration facility after being deported from the U.S. under Title 42 as part of the efforts of the U.S. government to expedite removals of some families to dissuade record numbers of migrants from making the journey north, at the La Aurora International airport in Guatemala City, Guatemala August 4, 2021. REUTERS/Luis Echeverria

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The United States will send immigration deportees back to Guatemala directly by air, the Central American country's foreign minister said on Thursday, in a policy shift that may end a practice by which hundreds of deportees were left at a remote jungle border.

Foreign Minister Pedro Brolo's comments followed meetings at the White House with U.S. officials this week that he described on Twitter as "very productive."