Conflicting reports have emerged as to whether President Donald Trump has reached a tentative agreement with the incoming Mexican administration for migrant caravan members to remain in Mexico while their asylum claims are processed in the U.S.
Lifezette reports:
A group of caravan members, meanwhile, planned to march toward an entry point at San Ysidro, California, on Sunday at noon, Fox News noted on Sunday morning. (The entry point was closed earlier; the situation is fluid.)
“The Trump administration has won the support of Mexico’s incoming government for a plan to remake U.S. border policy by requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims move through U.S. courts, according to Mexican officials and senior members of President-Elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s transition team,” according to a Saturday report in The Washington Post.
A contradictory CNN report, however, also emerged; it said Mexico’s incoming government had denied the Trump administration’s new proposal.
In a pair of tweets on Saturday, the president threatened to close the southern border.
He declared that the United States’ new policy for dealing with foreign nationals illegally crossing the border is to “catch and detain.”
“No ‘releasing’ into the U.S.,” he also said.
See the tweets here:
Migrants at the Southern Border will not be allowed into the United States until their claims are individually approved in court. We only will allow those who come into our Country legally. Other than that our very strong policy is Catch and Detain. No “Releasing” into the U.S…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 24 November 2018
….All will stay in Mexico. If for any reason it becomes necessary, we will CLOSE our Southern Border. There is no way that the United States will, after decades of abuse, put up with this costly and dangerous situation anymore!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 24 November 2018
“Would be very SMART if Mexico would stop the Caravans long before they get to our Southern Border, or if originating countries would not let them form (it is a way they get certain people out of their country and dump in U.S. No longer),” he also wrote.
“Dems created this problem. No crossings!” President Trump tweeted Sunday morning.
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