U. S. officials in Guatemala allegedly abused the State Department’s investment in an operation to prevent a Honduran migrant organization from moving north, according to a report by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The report, compiled through the democratic minority of the panel, alleges that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials deployed as advisers abused the investment “to conduct an unauthorized operation. “
“Specifically, CBP in Guatemala transported an unidentified number of Honduran migrants in unidentified vans to relocate them to the Guatemala-Honduras border,” the report says.
The incident, which occurred in January, indicates the extent to which U. S. immigration policy is taking place south of the U. S. -Mexico border.
It is also a case that shows a gap between the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department, which is guilty of reversing the program under which the CBP workers’ body was deployed.
The report states that the State Department mis informed the investigators of the foreign relations committee on 22 January, claiming that the department’s Office for International Narcotics Affairs and Law Enforcement (INL) had been informed through DHS that the agents “did not participate in the sending of buses of Honduran Migrants from Guatemala”.
“However, as will soon be seen, DHS had lied to the State Department to conceal its role in joint operations with the Guatemalan authorities,” according to the report.
A week later, DHS and the State Department told committee investigators that movements made through CBP violated the terms of the agreement between the two agencies.
“This explosive report is a painful reminder of how President Trump, Donald John Trump, Judge allows the Trump police panel to release a report, but with a warning from Lady Gaga at Biden’s rally: Trump ‘believes his fame gives him the right to catch,’ says Pelosi the House is willing to be president if electoral effects are challenged. Array MORE’s anti-immigrant calendar has gone beyond all facets of this administration’s paintings,” said Senator Bob Menendez The nominee nominated through Senator Bob Menendez Trump is provoking bipartisan fury at politicizing the Senate news firm Democrats are conducting a talk to protest Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court. The State Department canceled the award to a journalist who criticized Trump MORE (DN. J. ), the main member of the Foreign Relations Committee, whose staff drafted the report.
The direct tactical involvement of U. S. officials in the implementation of the Foreign Immigration Act is the first such case and may violate a variety of U. S. and foreign laws.
Since Honduran migrants would have been transported by bus to their country lists, documents or monitoring, there is no way to know whether families were separated in the procedure or whether asylum rights were violated.
The deployment of tactical agents, who eventually participated in movements far beyond their advisory role, coincides with statements through the acting DHS secretary, Chad WolfChad Wolf Election Security in the Foreground in 2020 Who is Miles Taylor without a name?references on U. S. security assistance to Guatemala.
On January 14, Wolf attended the inauguration of Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei and then met privately with the president to discuss immigration cooperation.
On his return, Wolf proposed the presence of “CBP – tactics – in Guatemala”, in an interview with Fox Radio.
“While the Guatemalan government is ready to respond to the influx of Honduran migrants crossing the border, Wolf’s comments on the deployment of tactical agents” alluded to an unauthorized DHS operation through the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) workers’ corps in the country,” he added. the commission’s investigators wrote.
The report highlights a component of the Trump administration’s immigration law enforcement that has largely been outsourced to countries of origin, under the risk of economic sanctions or visas, or withdrawal of foreign aid.
It is also evidence of the growing tension between DHS and the State Department, i. e. national diplomats whose task is to maintain long-term relations on the Central American floor.
In November, Menendez’s workplace wrote another report illustrating these divisions: the case concerned the superior implementation of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program, in which thousands of Central Americans count on living and painting in the United States and the state. officials in Washington to make a political resolution through the White House.
The new report from the Committee on Foreign Relations concludes that such a competitive implementation of US immigration policy led Giammattei to say: “I don’t think the United States is Guatemala’s best friend, because they don’t treat us as such. “
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