Mexico Agreed to Take Border Actions Months Before Trump Announced Tariff Deal

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Source: NYT

WASHINGTON — The deal to avert tariffs that President Trump announced with great fanfare on Friday night consists largely of actions that Mexico had already promised to take in prior discussions with the United States over the past several months, according to officials from both countries who are familiar with the negotiations.

Friday’s joint declaration says Mexico agreed to the “deployment of its National Guard throughout Mexico, giving priority to its southern border.” But the Mexican government had already pledged to do that in March during secret talks in Miami between Kirstjen Nielsen, then the secretary of homeland security, and Olga Sanchez, the Mexican secretary of the interior, the officials said.

The centerpiece of Mr. Trump’s deal was an expansion of a program to allow asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico while their legal cases proceed. But that arrangement was first reached in December in a pair of painstakingly negotiated diplomatic notes that the two countries exchanged. Ms. Nielsen announced the Migrant Protection Protocols during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee five days before Christmas.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/us/politics/trump-mexico-deal-tariffs.html

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

1. Bully politics...

He only wanted to be a “big man” bully. Thinks that’s attractive.

[Schmice3]

2. Trump made the US a loser

He comes off like the school yard bully looking for smaller weaker kids to terrorize. Once again, we are the Yankee imperialists and we will get our comeuppance

[mahina]

8. Welcome to DU.

I agree w your bully assessment but hope Mexico and the rest of the world will embrace a new leadership. I’m pulling for us.

[Maxheader]

9. Shrub number 2 was the same way...

[Midnight Writer]

3. Declare victory and go home. Not a new tactic.

[3Hotdogs]

4. Now Mexico doesn't have to pay for our border wall.

The problem has been solved.

[ancianita]

5. Before the world they are the more humane country. And their people were here before ours.

Trump and his whole white nationalist cause will go down.

There isn't enough fear in people running from climate change to hold our borders.

They are coming and we need to help them.

[MFGsunny]

6. Another BabyDumpty rerun. We've seen this short cartoon before. n/t

[DesertRat]

7. So he's lying. As usual.

[ROB-ROX]

10. GOP SCARE TACTICS

The idiot is so scared of being impeached he is running scared. The buffoon has no idea we know when he lies. This country has to come together and shit can the clown before he does something REALLY wrong!!!!

[Eugene]

11. 'All I have done, no credit!' Enraged Trump defends US-Mexico migrant deal

Source: The Guardian

‘All I have done, no credit!’ Enraged Trump defends US-Mexico migrant deal

President tweets ire at New York Times and opponents as agreement to avoid tariffs comes under scrutiny

Oliver Laughland in New York
Sun 9 Jun 2019 20.30 BST First published on Sun 9 Jun 2019 17.08 BST

The Trump administration was forced to defend its immigration agreement with Mexico on Sunday, amid reports that key provisions in the deal, forged under the threat of trade tariffs, were mostly old commitments agreed to months ago.

A surge in migration to America’s southern border continues, with May bringing the highest number of monthly apprehensions made by US authorities in the past 13 years.

In the deal announced with significant self-congratulation by Donald Trump on Friday, Mexico agreed to deploy its national guard and to expand a heavily criticised program that keeps migrants seeking asylum in the US in Mexico as their claims are processed. Trump withdrew a threat of 5% tariffs on all Mexican goods.

But on Saturday the New York Times reported that Mexico had already agreed to key provisions in the joint declaration during secretive negotiations over the past six months.

On Sunday, the president fired off a series of enraged tweets as he headed for a second day of golf at his course in Sterling, Virginia.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/09/trump-defends-mexico-immigration-deal