Trump Administration Strikes Deal With Mexico to Keep Asylum Seekers on Mexican Side of the Border

If this deal holds up, it will be a much needed victory for Trump on immigration:

“MEXICO CITY — 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 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. …”

I repeat … if this deal holds up.

The details don’t appear to be ironed out. It is an informal agreement. There could possibly be some legal bullshit in Mexico. The bottom line is that the caravan situation in Tijuana has spiraled out of control and it is not in Mexico’s interest for Trump to close the border or retaliate in some other way or continue to have all these illegal aliens literally breaking down the gates of their own border.

In light of the Iron Bowl this afternoon, I will just say this was like a 4th and 20 pass when you are down by 21 points in the third quarter for the Trump administration. If these caravans had busted through the border and kept coming, it would have shredded Trump’s credibility on immigration. Now, it is possible he might politically survive this near death experience and come out with a win.