Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo de León offered for the nation to receive 40% more deportation flights from the U.S. as it gears up to become a "safe third country" as part of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

Guatemala agreed to increase by 40% the number of flights carrying Guatemala migrants as well as deportees of other nationalities from the US, that nation's president said Wednesday. President Bernardo Arevalo praised relations with the US and said the two nations have challenges of migration, border security, and combat of transnational crime.

Guatemala's president says his country will accept migrants from other countries who are being deported from the United States.

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo said Wednesday his country will accept migrants from other countries who are being deported from the United States, the second deportation deal that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reached during a Central America trip that has been focused mainly on immigration.