Deal with Mexico paves way for asylum overhaul at U.S. border

[former9thward]

MEXICO CITY — The Trump administration has won the support of Mexico’s incoming government for a plan to remake U.S. border policy by requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims move through U.S. courts, according to Mexican officials and senior members of president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s transition team.

The agreement would break with long-standing asylum rules and place a formidable new barrier in the path of Central American migrants attempting to reach the United States and escape poverty and violence. By reaching the accord, the Trump administration has also overcome Mexico’s historic reticence to deepen cooperation with the United States on an issue widely seen here as America’s problem.

The White House had no immediate comment.

According to outlines of the plan, known as Remain in Mexico, asylum applicants at the border will have to stay in Mexico while their cases are processed, potentially ending the system Trump decries as “catch and release” that has until now generally allowed those seeking refuge to wait on safer U.S. soil.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/deal-with-mexico-paves-way-for-asylum-overhaul-at-us-border/2018/11/24/87b9570a-ef74-11e8-9236-bb94154151d2_story.html?utm_term=.cbf441bddd86&wpisrc=al_news__alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1

[thewhollytoast]

1. Squirrel!

[shockey80]

2. That will work out great for Mexico. Duh!

[customerserviceguy]

9. Trump has probably

agreed to pay Mexico to take care of them, at way less of a cost of detaining them in the US, is what I'd bet is part of this deal.

[former9thward]

4. Yes, sorry, forgot. Now in there.

[Xipe Totec]

5. +1. nt

[thewhollytoast]

6. Here's the jist

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/house-bills-would-largely-dismantle-asylum-system-us-mexico-border

[procon]

7. What's the price tag?

It will cost big $$$ to provide for thousands of people... Where's the money coming from and how are the extra US judicial staff getting paid to facilitate all those new claims for asylum?

[blueinredohio]

8. That's what I was going to ask.

Mexico is not going to do this for free.

[customerserviceguy]

10. My guess is that they'll do it a lot cheaper

than it would cost on this side of the border, and whatever Mexican agency gets the money, they'll siphon off at least half of it. Cheaper costs for the US, lousier treatment for asylum seekers that gets communicated back to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, discouraging future caravans.

Trump may be a complete asshole, but he isn't totally stupid, despite what most of us believe. Besides, it gives him leverage with the new government of Mexico, he can threaten to cut off the money and seal the border if he needs that as a bargaining chip.

[JI7]

11. lol