{"id":135681,"date":"2019-06-17T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=135681"},"modified":"2019-06-16T11:37:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T10:37:35","slug":"mexico-releases-the-full-text-of-trumps-immigration-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/06\/mexico-releases-the-full-text-of-trumps-immigration-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico Releases the Full Text of Trump\u2019s Immigration \u201cDeal\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is less a deal and more an agreement to discuss a future agreement.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

15 Jun 2019 – <\/em>The Mexican government has released a copy of a deal Donald Trump waved in front of reporters this week that he called \u201cthe agreement that everybody says I don\u2019t have<\/a>.\u201d According to the president, the document detailed previously unannounced immigration concessions agreed to as part of a deal between the US and Mexico that was negotiated both in order to reduce the number of South American immigrants arriving at the US border and to keep the Trump administration from levying tariffs on Mexico.<\/p>\n

The text of the letter reveals a commitment to begin discussions for a future agreement \u2014 essentially making it an agreement to negotiate an agreement \u2014 and is, as many expected, not a \u201cdeal<\/a>.\u201d It does, however, point to a future deal that could contain a win for Trump.<\/p>\n

Dated June 7, the letter states that the US and Mexico \u201cwill immediately begin discussions to establish definitive terms for a binding bilateral agreement to further address burden-sharing and the assignment of responsibility for processing refugee claims of migrants.\u201d<\/p>\n

This future agreement would include \u201ca commitment under which each party would accept the return and process refugee status claims, of third-party nationals who have crossed that party\u2019s territory to arrive at a port of entry or between ports of entry of the other party.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the letter, Mexico commits to examining its current immigration control practices and identifying legal changes that may be necessary to bring the outlined agreement into effect. It also sets a timeline for assessing the effect of changes agreed to in early June.<\/p>\n

Under the presidential threat of escalating tariffs on all Mexican goods starting at 5 percent, the two countries announced each would take steps to address immigrants and asylum seekers<\/a> traveling to the US from South America. The US promised to speed up the processing of asylum claims; Mexico promised to deploy 6,000 members of its National Guard, mostly at its border with Guatemala.<\/p>\n

According to the letter, Mexico has agreed that if after 45 days this deployment and any other measures it takes \u201chave not sufficiently achieved results in addressing the flow of migrants to the southern border\u201d in the eyes of the US, then Mexico will take \u201call necessary steps\u201d to bring the still to be negotiated agreement into force within the next 45 days.<\/p>\n

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Well, Mexico just released the full page that @realDonaldTrump<\/a> carried when he said there was a secret agreement pic.twitter.com\/A5ocd4WV6p<\/a><\/p>\n

— Carlos Manuel Rodr\u00edguez (@carlos_rgz) June 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n