US Asylum Deal with Honduras

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     For this week's blog, I chose to write about a CNN article written by Priscilla Alvarez. This article
talks about an asylum deal that the United States and Honduras have agreed upon. This asylum deal would allow the US to send asylum seekers back to Honduras if they didn't properly claim asylum when they first passed through the country. The US came to this deal to help stop the flow of immigrants seeking asylum into the US. This same type of treaty is in place with El Salvador and Guatemala as well. Immigrants who are seeking asylum will now be sent to Mexico for the duration of the proceedings or risk being sent back to their native country. Although, many people are opposing this and arguing that many immigrants face grave danger if they are sent back to Honduras due to the dangerous crime taking place in the country.  

MCALLEN, TEXAS - JULY 02: Immigrants are transported to a processing center after they were taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents on July 02, 2019 in McAllen, Texas. The immigrants, most from Central America, had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico to seek political asylum in the United States. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)



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