Guyana joins US third country deportation agreements
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The claim that these arrangements are mutually beneficial usually ignores the long term costs. When the US did similar deals in the nineties, the partner nations ended up with processing backlogs that lasted a decade.
Does the agreement specify the nationality of the deportees... I wonder if Guyana is only taking people from specific regions or if it's a blanket deal... that would change the demographics completely!
This mirrors the safe third country agreements Canada used with the US. The result was rarely a reduction in arrivals, just a shift in the routes migrants took to avoid the designated zones.
The timing here is key. Guyana is likely leveraging this agreement to secure tighter security guarantees from the US amid the ongoing border tensions with Venezuela.
This could actually provide Guyana with significant infrastructure grants for their own border management. Similar programs in Central America have historically funded new judicial courts and processing centers that benefit the local population.
Infrastructure sounds good on paper, but who is actually staffing these centers? I want to know if Guyana has the actual personnel to manage this without pulling people away from other essential services.