“President Trump has claimed for two days that he secured a secret immigration deal with Mexico — beyond the one announced Friday. But the White House has declined to disclose any details, and Mexico has denied it. Confronted with understandable skepticism that such a deal exists, Trump produced a folded piece of paper from his breast pocket Tuesday.”
Here’s what the mysterious piece of paper says, as verified and clarified by Mexico.
The essence is this:
The Friday agreement gave Mexico 45 days to prove that it could diminish migration without agreeing to a “safe third” deal. If the United States does not assess that progress has been made, the Trump administration probably will ask again for a “safe third” agreement. Mexico has not committed to that agreement, which would have to be approved by lawmakers and probably negotiated with other countries in the region.
“Safe third” means that a country can reject a person’s asylum application if they have already been granted protection by another country. (In other words, with Mexico’s agreement, the USA could deny asylum applications from Central Americans who have passed through Mexico, since Mexico has already guaranteed their safety from whatever they were fleeing.) This makes sense, but is outside the structure of current international agreements, so it would require extensive negotiations.
Pathetic. 2 days ago everyone slammed trump because it HAD to be a blank piece of paper. Now that you all were proven wrong again, the new narratives begin to fly.
When the fake news and the uninformed lemmings trash the guy at every turn, the haters lose all credibility. All you needed to do was admit you were wrong once in a while. But the haters want to win every little battle, thinking this is the one that’s going to end trump. Instead, the media and their followers continue to expose themselves, and the trump base wins again.
Well, no one would be very surprised if Trump waved around a blank sheet, but who said he did?
I suppose Mexico will now be annexing the Sudetenland.
This deal means ‘peace in our time’ with Mexico.
The paper probably has 87 “secret clauses” just like Tail Gunner Joe’s 87 names.
Of course this will have zero effect on drug trafficking, so he will keep plowing ahead on the wall demands