This new Trump administration policy could force asylum seekers at the southern border to Honduras

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Asylum seekers who show up at America's southern border could now end up in one of three Central American countries.

It doesn't matter if those asylum seekers came from Central America in the first place, they can still be sent back to El Salvador, Guatemala, and now Honduras under a set of newly enacted agreements if they didn't seek asylum in those countries first.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.