Mexico releases the full text of Trump’s immigration “deal”
Rachel Withers on Vox discusses the latest “deal” between the United States and Mexican governments on immigration, which avoided a tariff threatened on Mexico’s goods coming to the United States In Withers’ estimation, “It is less a deal and more an agreement to discuss a future agreement.” She write that
“The text of the letter reveals a commitment to begin discussions for a future agreement — essentially making it an agreement to negotiate an agreement — and is, as many expected, not a `deal.’ It does, however, point to a future deal that could contain a win for Trump.
Dated June 7, the letter states that the US and Mexico `will 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.’
This future agreement would include `a commitment under which each party would accept the return and process refugee status claims, of third-party nationals who have crossed that party’s territory to arrive at a port of entry or between ports of entry of the other party.’”
Read the article at the link above for further analysis.
Well, Mexico just released the full page that @realDonaldTrump carried when he said there was a secret agreement pic.twitter.com/A5ocd4WV6p
— Carlos Manuel Rodríguez (@carlos_rgz) June 14, 2019
KJ