Definition of safe third country agreement
international law
: an agreement between governments stipulating that asylum seekers are required to make a claim for asylum in the country where they first arrive
If Mexico signed a safe third country agreement, Central American migrants would no longer be able to cross the U.S.-Mexico border to surrender to U.S. authorities and stay in the country while they await asylum proceedings.— Rafael Bernal
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The first known use of safe third country agreement was in 1993
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