Bio: Eduardo Gonzalez is a third-year student at Boston University School of Law. He grew up in Mexico and South Texas. Eduardo is a graduate of Georgetown University`s International Politics. Once he graduates, he hopes to continue to give something back to the community. Under the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security pressured Central American governments to sign agreements to prevent migrants from traveling north to the U.S.-Mexico border. In November 2020, the Trump administration adopted a final interim rule for the implementation of agreements with Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Since then, the United States has deported Honduran and Salvadoran asylum seekers to Guatemala, repatriating at least 1,000 adults and children to the country. The Trump administration has repeatedly threatened countries and led them to sign these agreements. Guatemala signed an agreement on a „safe third country“ after the government threatened it with tariffs, travel bans and transfer taxes. Prior to the launch of the Remain in Mexico program, the government threatened to impose tariffs on all Mexican products. It is significant that the Trump administration has not characterized these agreements with „safe third countries“ as a shameful realization that these countries do not meet the implicit requirements of a safe third country. For example, most asylum seekers sent to Guatemala – including families with children – choose to return home, often risk their lives, but acknowledge that asylum seekers are not safe in Guatemala.
Mexico. Mexico has refused to sign an agreement on safe third countries and officials say they have already helped reduce migration to the United States. Since January, the Trump administration has sent many asylum seekers to Mexico while their cases are processed. In an agreement signed in June under customs pressure, Mexico agreed to take in more asylum seekers and strengthen enforcement of its southern border with Guatemala. The book is based on a series of spiritual beliefs, held by Toltec`s seniors, to help readers transform their lives into a new experience of freedom, happiness and love. [4] According to the author, everything a man does is based on agreements he has made with himself, with others, with God and with life itself. [1] In these agreements, we can tell ourselves who they are, how to behave, what is possible and what is impossible. [1] Some agreements that create individuals may not cause problems, but there are certain arrangements that come from a place of fear and have the power to deplete emotional energy and reduce a person`s self-esteem. [1] The book states that these self-limiting agreements cause unnecessary suffering. [1] Ruiz also believes that to find personal joy, one must get rid of socially imposed and fear-based agreements that can unconsciously influence the individual`s behaviour and thinking.
[5] Another fundamental premise of the book suggests that much of the suffering is created and that most people have the ability to transform themselves and the negative thoughts they have about the situations in their lives. [6] The author identifies the sources of unhappiness in life and proposes four beneficial agreements that can be concluded with oneself to improve their general state of well-being.