WASHINGTON – The Trump administration has finalized an agreement with Honduras that would allow some people seeking asylum in the United States to be sent to the Central American country instead.
The agreement is similar to one with Guatemala and is part of an administration effort to reduce the flow of migrants across the southwest border by making it harder to gain entry to the United States with an asylum claim.
The text of the agreement was released Thursday, a day before it is published in the Federal Register and takes effect. At the moment, the new agreement would seem to be unnecessary because the U.S.
is quickly expelling most people it encounters along the U.S.-Mexico border under an emergency public health order signed by