How Mexico talked Trump out of tariff threat with immigration crackdown pact
By Nick Miroff, Kevin Sieff and John Wagner June 10 at 7:19 PM
Mexican negotiators persuaded President Trump to back down from his tariff threat by agreeing to an unprecedented crackdown on Central American migrants and accepting more-expansive measures in Mexico if the initial efforts don’t deliver quick results, according to officials from both governments and documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
The enforcement measures Mexico has promised include the deployment of a militarized national guard at the Guatemalan border, thousands of additional migrant arrests per week and the acceptance of busloads of asylum seekers turned away from the U.S. border daily, all geared toward cutting the migrant flow sharply in coming weeks. The measures, described by officials from both sides and included in Mexican negotiating documents reviewed by The Post, appear to be more substantial than what the Mexican government has attempted thus far during the precipitous rise in migration to the U.S. border.
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We all knew the NYT article was bunk (except for Chris).
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-mexico-immigration-deal-has-additional-measures-not-yet-made-public/2019/06/10/967e4e56-8b8e-11e9-b08e-cfd89bd36d4e_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9a612845a4fd
What do you do?
(With apologies to John Maynard Keynes.)
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In any event, your humble post is noteworthy and welcome.
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I am willing to give Trump credit here, especially once we find out what the “secret” part of the deal is.
Let’s see, though.
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