Tuesday 11 June 2019

Mexico 'has 45 days to curb migrant flow to US SOIL'


The foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard said if troop reinforcements on its southern borders did not work, "additional measures" would need to be discussed.
He also
said this might mean a "regional solution" involving other nations.
But the US is also likely to require Mexico to process the asylum claims of migrants on its own soil.
He held a press conference which seemed to suggest a difference of opinion about what was actually in the deal announced between the US and Mexico last Friday.
In a tweet, US President Donald Trump said there was a "very important part" of the deal that had been "fully signed and documented" but not yet announced that would give the US what it had been asking for "for many years".
"It will be revealed in the not too distant future and will need a vote by Mexico's legislative body", the president tweeted, adding that if the vote failed "tariffs will be reinstated".
Commentators suggest this is the "safe third country" arrangement, under which migrants would have to apply first for asylum in Mexico, rather than the US, and be turned away if they do not.
Mr Ebrard said the US had been insistent on this measure.
But he said: "We told them - I think it was the most important achievement of the negotiations - 'let's set a time period to see if what Mexico is proposing will work, and if not, we'll sit down and see what additional measures'" are needed.
"They wanted something else totally different to be signed. But that is what there is here. There is no other thing," he said.
Mr Ebrard also said US negotiators had wanted Mexico to commit to "zero migrants" crossing its territory, but that was "mission impossible".
President Trump has also said Mexico will soon make "large" agricultural purchases from the US.
But Mr Ebrard said there had been no additional agreement with the US and that the American president was probably referring to expected growth in trade following the migration deal.

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