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Mexico agrees to Trump policy forcing migrants to wait in Mexico as asylum requests processed
The Hill ^ | 11/24/18 | Tal Axelrod

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; caravan; mexico; trump; winning
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1 posted on 11/24/2018 10:29:47 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

MAGA
MMGA


2 posted on 11/24/2018 10:32:04 AM PST by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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Wait till the invaders find out about this. Wait till the Tijuanians hear about this too. Could be a little battle brewing down Medico way. I wonder how long it will take the locals to load them onto boxcars heading south. I guess the current slogan will be "they are leaving, they just don't know it". Meanwhile over at anti trump land, curses, foiled again.
3 posted on 11/24/2018 10:34:23 AM PST by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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The creation of a “Palestinian” Gaza on the US-MEX border is underway.


4 posted on 11/24/2018 10:35:48 AM PST by myerson
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🙌 I wonder if they actually step foot on American soil when the apply. If not, there wouldn't be any standing to sue in court.
5 posted on 11/24/2018 10:38:40 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: yesthatjallen

Amazing, Obrador is proving to be a nice surprise.


6 posted on 11/24/2018 10:39:32 AM PST by aquila48
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“Mexico has open arms and everything, but imagine, one caravan after another after another, that would also be a problem for us.”

Migrants for thee, but not for me.

7 posted on 11/24/2018 10:43:20 AM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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The Art of the Deal
8 posted on 11/24/2018 10:43:24 AM PST by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: yesthatjallen

WINNING!

THANK GOD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!


9 posted on 11/24/2018 10:44:57 AM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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Being forced to wait in Mexico. Like that’s a bad thing.


10 posted on 11/24/2018 10:50:49 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory O f A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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HE SHOOTS! HE SCORES!

gawd, I love that man!!


11 posted on 11/24/2018 10:51:53 AM PST by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON)
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To: myerson

Thought the same thing earlier this am. A no-man’s land.


12 posted on 11/24/2018 10:54:30 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchaged our dreams for survival. We just ha va few days that don't suck.)
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Tomorrow could be interesting. There are unconfirmed reports that a mass rushing of the border by several thousand of the invaders is being planned for tomorrow. This could be a bluff or it could be the Left’s sought for camera opportunity of putting the women and children in the front and forcing them onto the concertina wire or provoking the US into firing on the mob while the cameras are rolling.


13 posted on 11/24/2018 10:58:06 AM PST by Truth29
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To: yesthatjallen

My President!


14 posted on 11/24/2018 10:59:20 AM PST by Guenevere
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To: tinyowl

Yeah. If they stopped them at their southern border, problem solved.


15 posted on 11/24/2018 11:07:14 AM PST by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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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.

But the "migrants" are the ones that put themselves there. Why is it our fault/problem?

Watch some idiotic federal OBAMA judge declare that Mexico cannot agree to this as it is a violation of international "law". That would be hilarious. Judges are so stupid, it seems to be a prerequisite to sit on the bench. IMO.

16 posted on 11/24/2018 11:11:38 AM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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tijuaneros wont take that lying down (cough cough)


17 posted on 11/24/2018 11:12:58 AM PST by SteveH
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To: yesthatjallen

Hip hip hooray!!!


18 posted on 11/24/2018 11:13:32 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: goldstategop

More details here:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-united-states-mexico-asylum-20181124-story.html


19 posted on 11/24/2018 11:13:59 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: gundog

I’m buying stock in ‘concertina’ wire companies. The remnants of Western Civilization are going to be in short supply.


20 posted on 11/24/2018 11:16:53 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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