Mexico published the document Friday that Donald Trump earlier flaunted as a secret deal to curb migration, but denied it had capitulated to the US president's demands for a so-called 'safe third country' agreement. Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard underwent a grilling in Mexico's Congress
1 / 3Migrants board rafts to cross the Suchiate river from Guatemala to Mexico, as Mexico races to implement a deal with Washington to curb undocumented migrationMigrants board rafts to cross the Suchiate river from Guatemala to Mexico, as Mexico races to implement a deal with Washington to curb undocumented migration Mexico City - Mexico published the document Friday that Donald Trump earlier flaunted as a secret deal to curb migration, but denied it had capitulated to the US president's...
The language in the"supplementary agreement" released by Mexico appears to resemble that. However Mexico's foreign ministry insisted the document -- signed by a deputy legal advisor to the ministry and his State Department counterpart -- was"not a binding bilateral agreement." Trump had waved the one-page document in front of reporters Tuesday to fend off critics who said he had in fact extracted little in the way of new commitments from Mexico with his tariff threats.
Under the countries' main deal, Mexico agreed to deploy 6,000 National Guardsmen to reinforce its southern border, and to expand its policy of taking back migrants as the United States processes their asylum claims. Speaking during Ebrard's testimony before Congress, Senator Dulce Maria Sauri of opposition party PRI rejected the foreign minister's claim that Mexico had not signed a binding agreement.
"We still have the ultimatum hanging over us, and on top of that we gave up the most precious jewel: we agreed to safe third country," he said.
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