Posted on 11/24/2018 10:29:47 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Mexico’s incoming administration has agreed to support a new policy from the Trump White House that would require migrants seeking asylum to remain in Mexico as their requests are processed, The Washington Post reported Saturday.
Mexican officials and senior members of president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s transition team told The Post that the incoming administration accepted the plan, called “Remain in Mexico,” in a sharp change to long-standing asylum rules that allowed migrants to file asylum claims after entering the U.S. either legally or illegally.
“For now, we have agreed to this policy of Remain in Mexico,” Olga Sánchez Cordero, Mexico’s incoming interior minister and the top domestic policy official for the president-elect, told The Post, calling it a “short-term solution.”
“The medium- and long-term solution is that people don’t migrate,” Sánchez Cordero added. “Mexico has open arms and everything, but imagine, one caravan after another after another, that would also be a problem for us.”
Neither the White House or the Department of Homeland Security immediately responded to requests for comment from The Hill.
While U.S. officials told The Post they are wary the deal could fall apart, they view it as a breakthrough in negotiations with Mexico that they believe could deter further migration to the southern border.
Human rights advocates have voiced their disapproval of President Trump's hardline immigration policies, including the Remain in Mexico plan. They say leaving migrants in Mexican border towns, which have seen intense violence as drug cartels fight each other for smuggling routes into the U.S., are likely to endanger people.
“We have not seen a specific proposal, but any policy that would leave individuals stranded in Mexico would inevitably put people in danger,” Lee Gelernt, an ACLU attorney whose team has successfully sued the Trump administration over its immigration initiatives, told The Post.
“The Administration ought to concentrate on providing a fair and lawful asylum process in the U.S. rather than inventing more and more ways to try to short-circuit it,” he added.
News of the policy comes days after a federal judge prevented the Trump administration from blocking asylum claims from migrants who do not enter the U.S. legally.
“Whatever the scope of the President’s authority, he may not rewrite the immigration laws to impose a condition that Congress has expressly forbidden,” U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar wrote in California.
“Asylum seekers will be put at increased risk of violence and other harms at the border, and many will be deprived of meritorious asylum claims,” he added. “The government offers nothing in support of the new rule that outweighs the need to avoid these harms.”
The president has doubled down on his hardline stance on immigration and asylum as a group of thousands of Central American migrants make their way to the southern border, many seeking to claim asylum.
He has argued that the caravan puts the U.S. at risk because some documented gang members are in the group, going as far as sending thousands of troops to defend the border, something many Democrats and some Republican lawmakers have called unnecessary.
“Our military is being mobilized at the Southern Border. Many more troops coming. We will NOT let these Caravans, which are also made up of some very bad thugs and gang members, into the U.S. Our Border is sacred, must come in legally. TURN AROUND!” Trump tweeted last month.
The asylum deal reportedly took shape last week following a meeting between Mexico's incoming foreign minister and U.S. officials including Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Nielsen has long faced criticism from Trump for supposedly being too soft on immigration and has been fighting to keep her job since earlier this month amid reports that Trump has instructed his aides that he plans to replace her.
>>Wait till the invaders find out about this. Wait till the Tijuanians hear about this too.<<
You mean: Wait till Federal Judges in California hear about this!!!!!
You mean: Wait till Federal Judges in California hear about this!!!!!
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Drag it out and don’t comply. Do what the Rats do.
It appears the Central American invaders were going to be waiting in Mexico whether the Mexicans agreed with PDJT’s policy or not. At least this way the Mexican frontera towns will get some asistance from the US since they’re being ignored by the DF in central Mexico.
And will probably order trainloads of concertina wire.
President Trump....Thank You...
That's the problem. We currently have an 'unfair' and 'awful' (not a good 'lawful) process and policy. Once it's fixed we will see these asylum seekers migrate to easier pickings. They just want a free ride. We are all filled up with freeloaders.
A Blue-Wave of butthurt is coming.
"We The People" need to get them all some "workfare".....real HARD work.
Maybe they'd find something easier, that pays better. (or GTF out)
WINNING!
THANK GOD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!
Amen and amen.
Can I get another “Amen!!” ?
This is the same Mexican bastard who said Mexicans have a right to enter the US for a better life.
AAAAAMEN! AAAAAMEN , AAAAAmen, Amen, Amen, Amen! Sing it over....
True, but he seems to have changed his tune.
It ain’t over till it’s over. When and if these asylums claims are reviewed how much of this garbage is going to get in here?
Awesome!!!!
Mexico pulls $28 billion a year out of our economy and sends it back to Mexico. Its the only thing keeping them afloat. It used to be PEMEX, Mexico's nationalized oil industry that was the number one source of income but remittances have surpassed that. Mexico doesn't want anyone cutting into that because even a small dent in that will have serious consequences for the Mexican economy. The fact of the matter is Mexico is so dependent on that money if the border was to be shut down for any substantial amount of time Mexico's economy would collapse , leading to a tsunami of people pouring out of Mexico into here. I'm sure every American president in the last thirty years has been warned of what would happen if this situation were ever to come about. As long as Mexicans can keep getting their people in here and they keep sending back the money there is a ‘’release valve’’ on what could be a humanitarian crisis unlike anything seen in this hemisphere before. Another reason why I hate Mexicans.
True, but he seems to have changed his tune.
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He changed his tune once he realized there is no longer the Prancing, Swishing Kenyan in the White Hut.
He knows the same thing is going to happen, or NOT happen, whether he agrees or not. Looks like they didn’t get the expected flood of money and goodies from the foreign community, so best to agree and get in line for some US Gubmint Freebies, for resistance would mean NOTHING for Mexico.
“any policy that would leave individuals stranded in Mexico would inevitably put people in danger”
So, how long will it be before they feel
they’ve been put in danger here? This
mess is soon to see its breaking point.
Many have shed blood to insure our
sovereignty.
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