Forced Return to Danger: Civil Society Concerns with the Agreements Signed between the United States and Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador

This memo lays out civil society concerns with the signed safe third country agreements between the United States and the countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Taken together, these agreements serve as one more measure to effectively shut the door to asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border and throughout the region. Far from addressing the forced migration from the region as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claims, these agreements will only further trap families, men, women, and children in precarious conditions without any meaningful access to protection.