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Guatemala has signed a comprehensive migration reform deal which allows U.S. border officials to legally block asylum claims by migrants who pass through that country, President Donald Trump said Friday.

President Trump’s administration is considering adding the country of Guatemala to its highly-effective travel ban list that has essentially halted all legal immigration from eight foreign countries with serious terrorist and crime problems.

President Donald Trump’s high-pressure migration deal with Mexico’s government is shutting down migration from Guatemala for now, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. 

A high-ranking Guatemalan government official told Breitbart News that the U.S. Department of State in that country is working with leftist organizations to allow President Donald Trump’s proposed “safe country” asylum agreement to die. President Trump is seeking agreements with Mexico and Central American countries to help slow the surge of migrants attempting to exploit loopholes in the U.S. asylum system.

A man charged with drunk driving and killing two Illinois women came to the United States as an illegal alien, an official tells Breitbart News.

Democrats blame President Donald Trump for migrants suffering on the border and want to allow 100,000 refugees a year from Central America.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said at the Democrat debate in Miami on Thursday that on his first day in office if he is elected president, he would issue an executive order to reverse everything President Donald Trump has done to secure the border.

U.S. and Guatemalan officials are negotiating a “safe third country” agreement which would bar the movement of U.S.-bound migrants through Guatemala, say press reports. 

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has arrested 140 illegal aliens, nearly a third of which have criminal records, in a five-day raid across multiple Midwest states. 

President Donald Trump has announced an immigration reform deal with the Mexican government which likely will allow border officials to end the catch-and-release of Central American migrants.

Mexico’s vital trade with the United States will be taxed until the country’s government blocks the mass migration of Central Americans into the United States, President Donald Trump announced via tweet late Thursday. 

A top court in Guatemala is expected to rule on Monday whether or not to uphold a constitutional ban that allegedly prohibits Zury Rios, a conservative presidential candidate and daughter of a former military dictator, from running for president due to her father’s participation in the country’s 1982 coup.

Guatemala’s Secretary of Strategic Intelligence Mario Duarte says migrants arriving at the United States-Mexico border are coming to the country for economic reasons and have been “weaponized” as a “picketing mob” for international open borders organizations.

The Department of Defense is shifting another $1.5 billion to build a “big & beautiful” border wall, says a tweet from pro-migration Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin. 

We are witnessing an extraordinary collapse of the rule of law in our immigration system as hundreds of thousands of migrants exploit our generous asylum system by making bogus claims of asylum after entering the United States illegally. 

New details are emerging about a hit-and-run crash in Mobile, Alabama, allegedly caused by an illegal alien that left a schoolteacher and mother dead.

The New York Times’ lead story on Wednesday admitted, “The Border Is Broken” – but it then tries to blame President Donald Trump and his voters for the decisions by hundreds of thousands of foreigners to enter the United States each year.

The group of supporters met with the president in San Antonio, Texas, but agreed to speak to the media about the problems on the border. 

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) proposed restoring U.S. foreign aid to Central American countries to help solve the immigration problems plaguing the U.S.-Mexico border.

At current immigration rates, more than 260,000 Hondurans and Guatemalans are expected to arrive in the United States by 2020, according to an analysis by The Guardian.

The President’s declaration of a national emergency at the border is increasingly looking like an understatement.  Caravan after caravan of illegal aliens from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador pushes toward our border. Mexico is warning that the “mother of all caravans” – over 20,000 people – is gathering in Honduras.

White House officials are scrambling to protect businesses from cross-border trade disruptions as President Donald Trump pressures Mexico and Congress to shut down Central America’s migration into the United States. 

President Donald Trump on Friday night halted all direct foreign aid to El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, fulfilling a longstanding threat to end payments to so-called “Northern Triangle” countries if they failed to halt migrant caravans headed for the United States.

“Mexico is tough. They can stop them. But they chose not to,” Trump said. “Now they got to stop them. If they don’t stop them, we’re closing the border. We’ll close it, we’ll keep it closed for a long time, I’m not playing games.”

Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL) says the illegal alien accused of killing school teacher Sonya Jones of Mobile, Alabama, in a head-on, hit-and-run car crash gamed the United States’ asylum system and took advantage of the Catch and Release policy.

The migrant inflow may reach 100,000 people in March, according to the Washington Post, as Democrats, business-first Republicans, progressive judges, and cartels hold open U.S. borders.

Duarte said migrant caravans heading to the U.S. border are “well-planned” and organized by those wanting to “weaponize those in need.”

Pro-migration groups are bitterly denouncing President Donald Trump’s new “Remain in Mexico” policy to end catch-and-release for most asylum-seeking migrants. 

“We will be forced to close the Southern Border entirely if the Obstructionist Democrats do not give us the money to finish the Wall & also change the ridiculous immigration laws that our Country is saddled with,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

The U.S. State Department announced on Tuesday that it is pledging more than $10 billion to help strengthen the economies of Central America and Southern Mexico to stem the flow of thousands of migrant surging into the country.

Since 2014, American taxpayers have been billed nearly $30 million to fund school supplies, toys, clothing, and coloring books for migrants returning to Central America after being deported from the United States.

The Pentagon will extend the troop deployment at the southwest border with Mexico through the end of January based on a request from DHS.

The U.S. commander overseeing the military’s response to the migrant caravan said the caravan was unlike anything officials have seen before.

A Mexican newspaper is reporting that a group of women looking for lost children has joined the migrant caravan marching through Mexico.

The United Nations Refugee Agency has 45 people in Mexico helping some 7,000 people who are marching from Central America to the U.S. border.