The agreement is the latest deal the Trump administration has struck to deport migrants to third-party countries.
The United States and Belize have signed a “safe third country” immigration agreement, which will allow the administration of President Donald Trump to transfer asylum seekers to the Central American country.
The deal marks the latest effort by the Trump administration to limit asylum applications in the US and carry out a campaign of mass deportation.
The two countries signed the agreement on Monday, with Belize calling it an act “grounded in the commitment of states to cooperate under the 1951 UN Convention on the Status of Refugees”.
In a statement posted on Facebook, its government press office wrote, “The Agreement reinforces Belize’s commitment to international law and humanitarian principles while ensuring strong national safeguards.”
The US State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, meanwhile, thanked
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