Saturday, November 24, 2018

THINK PROGRESS: Trump Reaches Accord With Mexico To Keep Asylum Seekers DA FUQ Out Of The U.S. Until Their Cases Wind Their Way Through Our Fucked Up Judicial System


Hopefully they'll wind all the way to the Supreme Court. Enough of this asylum bullshit.

The best thing about this is it is making Mexico pay for their sins.

Perhaps this is part of Trump's strategy. Make 'em pay for their sins long enough and maybe they'll be willing to pay for the fucking wall.
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. 
The agreement would break with long-standing asylum rules and place a formidable new barrier in the path of Central American migrants attempting to reach the United States and escape poverty and violence. 
By reaching the accord, the Trump administration has also overcome Mexico's historic reticence to deepen cooperation with the United States on an issue widely seen here as America's problem. 
According to outlines of the plan, known as Remain in Mexico, asylum applicants at the border will have to stay in Mexico while their cases are processed, potentially ending the system Trump decries as "catch and release" that has until now generally allowed those seeking refuge to wait on safer U.S. soil. 
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. 1. In an interview with The Washington Post, she called it a "short-term solution." 
"The medium- and long-term solution is that people don't migrate," Sánchez Cordero said. "Mexico has open arms and everything, but imagine, one caravan after another after another, that would also be a problem for us."

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