The Beat Goes On: Trump has finalized an agreement to deport asylum seekers to El Salvador

• Published date: 18 December 2020
• Author: immigrationprof
• Subject Matter: Immigration
• Law Firm: Law Professor Blogs Network

Nicole Narea, who is writing some great immigration stuff on Vox, reports that the Trump administration is continuing the full court press on immigration into the final days of the Trump presidency. Earlier this week, the administration announced that will commence implementation of a controversial agreement to return asylum seekers to El Salvador. Here is the Department of Homeland Security announcement.

The Asylum Cooperative Agreement, signed in September 2019, is one of three such pacts that the United States has made to deter migration. The other agreements are with Honduras and Guatemala; the agreement with Guatemala has gone into effect so far.

According to Narea, the United States “is returning people seeking asylum to those countries despite the...