Caravan Update: Faggedabowdit U.S., says Mexico

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When first we discussed the goings on with the migrant caravan heading toward the U.S.-Mexico border, we learned that we had a deal whereby the members of the caravan would wait in Mexico while their cases were waiting to be heard by the U.S. courts.

But that is not a fact.

Mexico's incoming foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, now says discussions over how to handle migrants traveling to the U.S. are continuing and nothing has yet been settled. He denied reaching an agreement that would have migrants wait patiently in Mexico while their claims were being processed.

Ebrard's words contradict President Donald Trump's latest tweet in which he claimed migrants would not be allowed to enter the U.S. until their claims were approved:

"Migrants at the Southern Border will not be allowed into the United States until their claims are individually approved in court. No 'releasing' into the U.S. All will stay in Mexico."

The conflicting statements emerged after the Washington Post reported Mexican officials agreed to allow migrants trying to enter the US stay in Mexico while their asylum claims were heard.

According to the Post, the plan was called "Remain in Mexico".

But Mr Ebrard, who will become foreign minister in December after Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's administration takes power, said the US had yet to even send "a specific proposal" on how to deal with the issue, and said conversations are continuing to take place in Washington.

The incoming Interior Minister, Olga Sanchez Cordero, also told  Reuters that no agreement had been reached between the two countries, however, a Washington Post article initially quoted her as saying it was a "short term solution" to deal with the migrant caravan.

Thousands of migrants - including some women and children - are currently at the US-Mexico border after traveling over 2,500 miles from Central America.

They claim to be fleeing persecution, poverty and violence in their home countries of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, but instead of settling in the first country they came to, and one that speaks their language [Mexico], they chose to continue their journey to the U.S.

Many are now waiting in temporary shelters in the border city of Tijuana, leading the mayor to declare a humanitarian crisis. There are fears as many as 9,000 may be stuck in the city for months.

President Trump has deployed about 5,800 troops to the border and has  described the migrant caravan as an "invasion". Mexico and liberals initially slammed him for that depiction, but now that the migrants have created havoc in Tijuana, the residents there agree with his description.

So to recap: Mexico is saying that no agreement to have migrants wait in Mexico while their cases are being processed in the U.S. has yet been reached, in spite of President Trump's tweet saying that the "Remain in Mexico" was a done deal.


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