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Vice President Kamala Harris has offered an optimistic outlook for improved cooperation with Guatemala on addressing the spike in migration to the U.S. But after her meeting with Guatemala’s president Monday, Harris also delivered a direct warning to migrants considering making the trek: “Do not come

Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday discouraged Guatemalans from immigrating illegally to the U.S. “I want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making the trek to the United States-Mexico border: Do not come. Do not come,” Harris said.

This is the Vice President’s first foreign trip which will include visits to Guatemala and Mexico.

Vice President Kamala Harris has told Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei that the U.S. is planning to increase relief to the Northern Triangle region and “strengthen our cooperation” to better manage the steep increase in migration at the U.S. southern border.

Climate-related events increasingly intensify drivers of migration, including violence, food insecurity and poverty.

More than 200 Honduran migrants stepped off six buses at a converted seaside hotel this week following a wearying trip overnight across Guatemala after being deported by Mexico.

The Biden administration has struck an agreement with Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala to temporarily surge troops to their borders in an effort to reduce the tide of migration to the U.S. border

The Biden administration is ending agreements with three Central American nations that were part of an effort to restrict asylum under President Donald Trump

Maria Macario has been living inside a Massachusetts church for over three years to avoid deportation to Guatemala.

Guatemalan police and soldiers have broken up a group of hundreds of migrants who had spent two nights stuck at a roadblock on a rural highway.

Revelers burn effigies of the devil and household junk in the annual tradition. The “Burning of the Devil” is meant to symbolize a day of purification ahead of the Catholic festival of the Immaculate Conception.

Guatemala is not the home they chose, but it’s the only home they have thanks to the Trump Administration’s Asylum Cooperation Agreement which has turned the violent and poverty-stricken country into an outsourced asylum, according to the New York Times.

U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement says it’s expanding coronavirus testing at detention facilities

A 22-year-old Guatemalan woman in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement died in a Texas hospital, the agency said Monday.

Nine parents who were deported as the Trump administration separated thousands of migrant families landed back into the U.S. to reunite with children they haven’t seen in a year and a half.

Hundreds of Central American migrants were stranded in a sort of no-man’s land on the river border between Guatemala and Mexico after running up against lines of Mexican National Guard troops deployed to keep them from moving en masse into the country and on north toward the U.S.

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. The family’s advocates accuse the U.S. of disregarding the health of the children, ages 1 and 6,...

More than 200 mostly Honduran migrants rested on a bridge at the Guatemala-Mexico border waiting for the arrival of others and hoping sheer numbers will improve their chances of entering Mexico and continuing their journey north....

Across the river from Tecun Uman, in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Hidalgo, National Guard troops with riot shields trucked in throughout Friday afternoon...

The documents detail an intelligence-gathering effort by the United States and Mexican authorities, targeting more than 50 people including journalists, an attorney, and immigration advocates.

Constance Wannamaker wanted to scream and cry at the same time. The Texas immigration attorney had just heard what should have been great news: Her client, a 21-year-old Guatemalan woman, was getting released from the El Paso Processing Center after weeks in detention. But that’s just a sliver of the story.