U.S.-Mexico deal will have asylum seekers wait outside U.S. border

Usually when a person flees their native country in fear of their life, they seek refuge in the first country to which they arrive. The caravan that made its way from Central America and is supported by several leftist organizations, three of which are connected to George Soros, for the most part, apparently has no intention of seeking refuge in Mexico. They want to come to the U.S. and many aren't running from danger, but running toward job opportunities--they openly admit that, but the left doesn't report it.

The Trump administration has won the support of Mexico's newly-elected government for a plan to change U.S. border policy. The plan requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims go through the legal process in U.S. courts. This new procedure was made public by senior members of president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador's transition team.

Now why Mexico didn't stop the caravan at their own border in the south is a different sort of question.

The mutual agreement  breaks with long-standing asylum rules and puts a new barrier in the path of Central American migrants trying to reach the U.S. border to escape violence and poverty. This accord illustrates that the Trump administration has overcome Mexico's historical resistance to cooperate with the United States on an issue they historically viewed as our problem, not theirs.

The plan, known as Remain in Mexico, [a tremendous name] asylum applicants at the border must remain in Mexico while their cases are processed, potentially ending the system Trump refers to as "catch and release," a term often used with fly fishing, and coincidentally, I happen to be wearing my "Catch and Release" sweatshirt as I write this--really.

The old "catch and release" program Trump referred to allowed refuge seekers to stay in the U.S. while awaiting the outcome of their applications. Only a handful came back to court to find out the results.

"For now, we have agreed to this policy of Remain in Mexico," said Olga Sánchez Cordero, Mexico's incoming interior minister, the top domestic policy official for López Obrador, who takes office Dec. 1st. In an interview with The Washington Post, she labeled it a "short-term solution."

"The medium- and long-term solution is that people don't migrate," Sánchez Cordero added. "Mexico has open arms and everything, but imagine, one caravan after another after another, that would also be a problem for us."

Just as it's a problem for us--that's why Trump made the deal and is a better deal maker than Mexico, evidently.

Although no formal agreement has been signed, and U.S. officials warn that many details still need to be discussed, the incoming Mexican government is okay with the idea of turning their country into a waiting room for America's asylum system.

Although U.S. officials worry the deal could fall apart, they view it as a potential breakthrough that could dissuade those who want to join a caravan in Central America and trek through Mexico in hopes of moving to the greatest nation on the planet. These officials have quietly engaged in sensitive dialogue with senior Mexican officials, trying to offer a diplomatic counterbalance to Trump's tough talk about ultimatums and threats, along with the arrival of military troops at the shared border.

Again it has to be said, if Mexico handled their own border in the south, this problem would likely not exist.

Human rights hypocrites [aka: leftists] are upset with the idea of keeping thousands of asylum seekers in drug cartel-run Mexican border states for months or even years, but had no problem allowing them to cross dangerous territory within Mexico to get to other drug cartel-run territory. 

Since most immigrants and the dead tend to vote Democrat, they want more of these people to have illegal access to entering the country.

U.S. officials speaking about the new system on the condition of anonymity said that they will be able to process at least twice as many asylum claims as they do currently because they wouldn't be limited by how much detention space they could offer at U.S. ports of entry. 

The San Ysidro port of entry in the San Diego area currently accepts about 60 to 100 asylum claims per day.


Nearly 5,000 Central Americans have arrived in Tijuana so far this month as part of caravan groups, and several thousand others are heading to the city. A baseball field has been turned into a swelling tent camp and the migrants are complaining about the conditions and the food. 

The city's mayor declared a "humanitarian crisis" Friday and said the city's taxpayers would not foot the bill for the migrants' care. It seems that the residents of Tijuana are beginning to see things Trump's way in terms of this being an invasion.

A group of business leaders in the city said they have thousands of job openings at the city's assembly plants, or maquiladoras, inviting Central American migrants to work in the factories. Though wages there are a small fraction compared to the  U.S., Mexican officials said the work offer was one reason they believe the Remain in Mexico plan will succeed. Across Mexico, there are 100,000 jobs available to Central American asylum seekers, officials said.

"We want them to be included in society, that they integrate into society, that they accept the offer of employment that we are giving them," Sánchez Cordero said. "That they feel taken care of by Mexico in this very vulnerable situation."

Two top members of López Obrador's transition team said the new accord would formalize what is already occurring. By admitting so few people into the asylum process, the U.S. is already using Mexico as a waiting room.

U.S. immigration statistics show about 80 percent of Central Americans pass a perfunctory "credible fear" interview after reaching the United States, but fewer than 10 percent are ultimately granted asylum by a judge. "Are you scared?" "Si." "You pass."

The backlog of cases in U.S. immigration courts has ballooned past 750,000, giving many asylum seekers who do not qualify a chance to remain in the country for several years while waiting to see a judge, but most fail to show.

This gap, Department of Homeland Security officials say, amounts to a "loophole" that has invited a flood of spurious asylum claims, giving applicants a way to live and work in the United States for years.

Of course, this new deal, might inadvertently increase illegal border-crossing attempts by discouraging asylum seekers from approaching official ports of entry. 

Last month, the number of people taken into U.S. custody along the Mexico border or who attempted to enter without authorization topped 60,000, the highest of Trump's presidency.

Both American and Mexican officials hope the accord would pave the way to a broader regional cooperation aimed at stimulating job creation in Central America.

We shall see soon if the deal passes and whether it will work.

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