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Biden Admin Claimed It Inked Deal With Guatemala To Increase Border Security. Guatemala Says It Never Signed.

Emily Zanotti
Biden Admin Claimed It Inked Deal With Guatemala To Increase Border Security. Guatemala Says It Never Signed.
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The Biden administration, in an effort to appear as though it has the ongoing immigration crisis in hand, announced Monday that it had inked a deal with Guatemala, Mexico, and Honduras to increase border security along all three countries’ borders, effectively stifling the flow of migrants from Central America.

Now, though, Guatemala, one of the countries where many of the illegal immigrants captured at the United States-Mexico border originate, says it signed no such deal, and that any increase in border security is the result of actions taken earlier this year, without any agreement with or from the Biden administration.

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