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Trump defends Mexico migration deal and pledges more detail

By Lesley Wroughton and Doina Chiacu

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron (not pictured) at the Prefecture of Caen, on the sidelines of D-Day commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of the World War II Allied landings in Normandy, France, June 6, 2019. Ludovic Marin/Pool via REUTERS

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump defended his administration's deal with Mexico against criticism that there were no major new commitments to stem a flow of Central American migrants crossing into the United States, and said on Sunday more details would soon be released.

 

Key aspects of the agreement are still unclear, including whether Mexico has pledged to buy more U.S. agricultural products and if the deal materially expanded a previous commitment by Mexico to more vigorously police its southern border with Guatemala.

 

Top Democratic senators said many aspects of the deal were not new, while the Mexican ambassador to the United States declined to confirm whether it contained any commitments on agricultural goods.

 

The deal, announced on Friday after three days of talks in Washington, averted Trump's threatened imposition of 5% import tariffs on all Mexican goods that had been due to start on Monday unless Mexico committed to do more to help reduce an increase in migrants arriving at the U.S. southern border.

 

"Mexico was not being cooperative on the Border...and now I have full confidence, especially after speaking to their President yesterday, that they will be very cooperative and want to get the job properly done," Trump said on Twitter.

 

"Importantly, some things not mentioned in yesterday press release, one in particular, were agreed upon. That will be announced at the appropriate time," he added.

 

Trump did not elaborate and the White House and State Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

 

Friday's joint communique broadly sketched the terms of the agreement, but contained few details.

 

The Mexican peso jumped against the dollar in Asian markets and U.S. equity futures rose on Sunday following the deal.

 

The agreement expedites a programme known as the Migration Protection Protocols that was announced in December. That programme sends migrants seeking asylum in the United States to wait in Mexico while their cases are being processed.

 

Friday's agreement would see the United States immediately expand the implementation of the MPP across its entire 2,000-mile (3,220-km) southern border, the State Department said on Friday.

 

But as of Sunday night, U.S.-bound asylum seekers were not yet being sent back to additional Mexican border towns, three Mexican officials said.

 

Officials in the Mexican border states of Sonora, south of the U.S. states of Arizona and New Mexico, and Tamaulipas, south of Texas, said they were unaware of plans to expand the number of border crossings where the asylum seekers must be returned to Mexican territory to await processing.

 

The deal will also see Mexico deploy the National Guard police force to its southern border, where many Central American migrants enter Mexico.

 

UNCERTAINTY OVER AGRICULTURE

On Saturday, a New York Times report, citing officials from both countries familiar with the negotiations, said most of Friday's deal had already been sketched out in March, when Mexico agreed to deploy its National Guard throughout the country, with priority given to the southern border.

 

Trump tweeted on Sunday that the Times report was false, adding: "We have been trying to get some of these Border Actions for a long time, as have other administrations, but were not able to get them, or get them in full, until our signed agreement with Mexico."

 

But it was business as usual over the weekend at the busiest crossing point along Mexico's porous southern border with Guatemala. Evidence of Mexico's promised crackdown on new arrivals trying to reach the United States was nowhere to be seen, as a small fleet of rafts carried migrants hoping to escape the violence of Central America.

 

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer also said there appeared to be little new in the deal, adding it was a "bogus" solution used by Trump to get out of an ill-conceived tariff threat.

 

"This is likely to have only a small impact on solving the root causes of Central American migration because many of the components are things Mexico had already said they would do," Schumer said on Twitter.

 

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Twitter, however, that Trump's "strong stand got Mexico to do things they have never done before."

 

There is further uncertainty around Trump's comments on Saturday that Mexico had agreed to "immediately begin" buying "large quantities" of agricultural goods from U.S. farmers.

 

Mexican officials have not confirmed any new agreement on agricultural products. Asked repeatedly about such a deal on CBS on Sunday, the Mexican ambassador to the United States, Martha Bárcena Coqui, said only that trade would increase without the tariffs. She said there were many details discussed during negotiations that were not in the written declaration.

 

She noted Mexico was already a top U.S. trade partner in agricultural products. Mexico is the top importer of U.S. corn, wheat, pork and dairy by volume.

 

On Saturday, Mexico's foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, tweeted that the deal should boost economic growth and therefore demand for U.S. agricultural products, but he also stopped short of saying that the deal contained a commitment on Mexico's part to purchase more goods from the United States.

 

(Reporting by Lesley Wroughton and Doina Chiacu; Additional reporting by Lizbeth Diaz in Tijuana, Mexico, and Roberta Rampton and Matt Spetalnick in Washington; Editing by Rosalba O'Brien and Peter Cooney; and Hugh Bronstein in Mexico City)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-06-10

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[Thakkar]

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

“Importantly, some things not mentioned in yesterday press release, one in particular, were agreed upon. That will be announced at the appropriate time," he [Trump] added.

 

“Quick, Kellyann, come up with some BS I can announce,” He went on, sotto voce

 

[Tug]

Sooo the man of 10,000 lies expects us to believe him just call it for what it was a lie distraction ploy no more no less

[Becker]

Another example of the traitor in the WH creating a problem then taking the credit when the grown-ups have fixed it. 

[Psimbo]

Another empty 'deal'- who'd a thunk it!

[Dumbastheycome]

Wait for  it !  Another  "love Letter"  is getting  framed.

[zydeco]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

"Importantly, some things not mentioned in yesterday press release, one in particular, were agreed upon. That will be announced at the appropriate time," he added.

The appropriate time???  What is THIS nonsense? It's clear that we've just been handed another gigantic lie. He of the porcine eyes seems to get fatter every week.

[jany123]

10 hours ago, webfact said:

“there were no major new commitments to stem a flow of Central American migrants crossing into the United States,”

At least this time he’s not giving the farm away to a North Korean dictator. I call that progress. 

[zydeco]

56 minutes ago, jany123 said:

At least this time he’s not giving the farm away to a North Korean dictator. I call that progress. 

It would be better if he bought the farm.

[Cryingdick]

It's a lot more than the dems are doing on this issue. I am sure Nancy and Chuck aren't happy as every one turned away was a potential voter for their party. 

[usviphotography]

10 hours ago, zydeco said:

The appropriate time???  What is THIS nonsense? It's clear that we've just been handed another gigantic lie. He of the porcine eyes seems to get fatter every week.

He's talking about MPP. It is extremely important, but Trump is not the person to explain it. They will want somebody at the State Department or Homeland Security to do that. 

[simple1]

1 hour ago, usviphotography said:

He's talking about MPP. It is extremely important, but Trump is not the person to explain it. They will want somebody at the State Department or Homeland Security to do that. 

We will see. As yet MPP has not finalised legal challenges as to its Constitutionality.

[Tug]

4 hours ago, Cryingdick said:

It's a lot more than the dems are doing on this issue. I am sure Nancy and Chuck aren't happy as every one turned away was a potential voter for their party. 

I’m sure you rember Easter 2017 when Donald had the votes had some wall money everything was ready to go then he comes out saying daca is dead daca is dead so he wouldn’t sign nope it’s Donald don’t be so selective accecpt the fact that the majority of the problem resides with Donald and his lack of skills as a govener and or negotiatior 

[Scott]

Troll post and reply removed.  

 

[stevenl]

3 hours ago, usviphotography said:

He's talking about MPP. It is extremely important, but Trump is not the person to explain it. They will want somebody at the State Department or Homeland Security to do that. 

If it is extremely important it would have been in the press release.

Since when has him 'not being the person to explain it' stopped him from getting the associated credit?

 

Your post doesn't make any sense.

[bristolboy]

6 hours ago, Cryingdick said:

It's a lot more than the dems are doing on this issue. I am sure Nancy and Chuck aren't happy as every one turned away was a potential voter for their party. 

Another lie about illegal aliens voting. You know, the ones who took the bus from Massachusetts to New Hampshire.

[bristolboy]

Trump is probably referring to the huge agriculture deal that's in the works. The one where Mexico promised to buy lots more stuff from American farmers. And to all you Trump haters: stop criticizing this claim on the very minor point that it's imaginary. You nattering nabobs of negativism.

[Thakkar]

23 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

nattering nabobs of negativism.

 

Name of my Emo band in Highschool. 

[Cryingdick]

Mexico came crawling as was expected. The government doesn't want to be exposed as the corrupt, cartel that they represent.

Edited June 11, 2019 by Cryingdick

[Tug]

Trump supporters are sounding a bit desperate of late

[Paul Henry]

POTUS obviously has not read "THE ART OF THE DEAL" could not negotiate his way out of bed.

[Thakkar]

 

[zydeco]

Herbert Hoover: "Prosperity is just around the corner."

Nixon: "I have a secret plan to end the war."

GW Bush: "We have evidence of WMDs."

Trump: "We have a secret deal with Mexico we will reveal at the right time."

[Thakkar]

 

[Scott]

Off-topic posts and replies removed.

 

[mrwebb8825]

and once again it's working out and yet not an apology in site from the "Pelosi/Schumer" family reps on here.

Do you lot buy all the boneless chicken you can find hoping and praying for a single bone to whine about?

[candide]

As usual El Naranjo pulled down los pantalones!

 

By the way, Mexico has a free market economy, right? So it's not the government who decides from which country Mexican firms, such as wholesalers, supermarket chains or food producers buy their agricultural products, right?