Guatemala will build a new center for deported migrants on the border with Mexico financed by the American Development Agency (USAID), whose programs were cut by more than 80% by the government of Donald TrumpPresident Guatemalteco announced Wednesday Bernardo Arévalo.
The Central American country He has collaborated at the reception of the Guatemalans expelled by the United States as part of Trump’s immigration policy and offered as a bridge for the deportation of migrants from other nationalities.
“A center is going to be built with the best possible conditions for our brothers They feel that we are waiting for them and that we are welcoming them with open arms“, Arévalo told journalists when visiting the site where the new building will be built.
The center, which will have capacity To serve 250 migrants At the same time, it will be inaugurated to mid -2026 In the border town of Tecún Umán (southwest), where the migrants deported from Mexico arrive by land.
The current deportees center works in a gap rented to the government and received 10 thousand 752 migrants in 2024according to official figures.
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