Deportation Nation, Con't

Looks like that deal with Mexico to host US asylum seekers that I talked about yesterday is in jeopardy as now the incoming AMLO government is flatly denying any deal has been reached.

U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday that migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border would stay in Mexico until their asylum claims were individually approved in U.S. courts, but Mexico’s incoming government denied they had struck any deal.

Mexico’s incoming interior minister said there was “no agreement of any type between the future government of Mexico and the United States.”

Olga Sanchez Cordero, also the top domestic policy official for president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who takes office on Dec. 1, told Reuters that the incoming government was in talks with the United States but emphasized that they could not make any agreement since they were not yet in government.

Sanchez ruled out that Mexico would be declared a “safe third country” for asylum claimants, following a Washington Post report of a deal with the Trump administration known as “Remain in Mexico,” which quoted her calling it a “short-term solution.”

The plan, according to the newspaper, foresees migrants staying in Mexico while their asylum claims in the United States are being processed, potentially ending a system Trump decries as “catch and release” that has until now often allowed those seeking refuge to wait on safer U.S. soil.

“Migrants at the Southern Border will not be allowed into the United States until their claims are individually approved in court. We only will allow those who come into our Country legally. Other than that our very strong policy is Catch and Detain. No “Releasing” into the U.S.,” Trump said in a tweet late Saturday.

Seems Mexico realized they were dealing with Trump, a guy who gladly would screw over anyone for a buck, and that maybe somebody in the incoming Lopez Obrador team started asking questions about what was in it for Mexico.

The answer: getting stuck with tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of refugees every year while Trump laughs at how stupid Mexico is.

Suddenly everything is in flux, as they say.  Stay tuned.