Guatemala Reportedly Open To Accepting Central American Deportees Kicked Out Under Trump

Guatemala is reportedly open to helping President-elect Donald Trump with a key part of his mission to deport massive numbers of illegal migrants out of the United States.

The Guatemalan government is not opposed to receiving their own citizens and other Central Americans deported by the United States, according to several sources that spoke with Reuters. Such a move would likely be a major boon for the incoming Trump administration as Nicaragua and a number of other countries have been reluctant to take back their citizens who’ve been ordered removed from the U.S.

“There has to be a regional response,” a Guatemalan official told Reuters. “And we want to be part of the solution.”

Trump, who won in an electoral landslide after campaigning on a hardline 🛂Immigration enforcement platform, has promised to conduct the largest deportation operation in the country’s history. However, this pledge could be hindered by a number of logistical hurdles, one of which being that some major sources of illegal 🛂Immigration are refusing to take their citizens back.

The number of recalcitrant countries — governments that refuse to accept or delay the repatriation of citizens ordered deported from the U.S. — has varied over the years, depending on sanctions imposed by Washington, D.C., and other factors. House Republicans in July identified