Guatemalan activists protest migrant asylum pact with US | World News, The Indian Express

Guatemalan activists protest migrant asylum pact with US | World News, The Indian Express

By AP |Guatemala City |Updated: July 28, 2019 8:09:01 am

Guatemalan activists protest migrant asylum pact with US

Human rights activist Brenda Hernandez, one of the organizers of the protest march, said this poor nation can barely take care of its own people, much less shelter vulnerable migrants.

Demonstrators demand the resignation of Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, featured in the poster that reads in Spanish “Traitor,” outside the Presidential House in Guatemala City, Saturday, July 27, 2019. Demonstrators are protesting an agreement that their government signed with Washington to require migrants passing through the Central American country to seek asylum there, rather than pushing on to the U.S. (AP Photo/ Oliver de Ros)

Hundreds of Guatemalans gathered Saturday to protest an agreement that President Jimmy Morales’ government signed with Washington to require migrants passing through the Central American country to seek asylum here, rather than pushing on to the U.S.