broad guidelines of the agreement between Mexico & the U.S.

Posted on: June 8, 2019 at 06:58:12 CT

The State Department Friday evening released broad guidelines of the agreement between Mexico and the United States.

Mexico has agreed to deploy its national guard throughout Mexico, in particular to its Southern border, which borders Guatemala, according to details of the agreement released by the State Department. In addition, Mexico has agreed to take "decisive action to dismantle human smuggling and trafficking organizations as well as their illicit financial and transportation networks."

According to the State Department said the United States will "immediately expand" the implementation of an existing protocol "across its entire Southern Border" and, as a result, migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border "will be rapidly returned to Mexico where they may await the adjudication of their asylum claims." Mexican officials have agreed to offer jobs, health care and education to those awaiting the adjudication of asylum claims.

However, the Trump administration abandoned its most controversial demand – that Mexico agree to be designated as a safe third-party country, which would have meant accepting asylum applications from thousands of Central American migrants.

Both countries agreed to "take further actions" if the measures adopted do not result in limiting migrants seeking asylum. It is unclear at the moment what the new actions might be. It is also unclear how the U.S. and Mexico will measure results.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/07/trump-says-agreement-reached-mexico-over-migrants/1368485001/