By Melanie Arter | April 16, 2021 | 12:39pm EDT
US customs and border patrol agents and riot policemen take part in a border security drill at the US-Mexico international bridge, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on October 29, 2018. (Photo by HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki denied Friday that there was ever “a formal declaration or a formal agreement” for Northern Triangle countries - Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras - to maintain a troop presence at the border.
This after the Special Envoy for the Northern Triangle Ricardo Zúniga on Wednesday denied that there were any agreements for those countries to provide security at the border.