If Donald Trump’s triumph on Friday lacked anything, it was that Mexico
had staved off a demand to change its asylum policies. The Trump
administration had demanded that Mexico adopt the “safe third country”
protocol, by which asylum seekers would have to apply in the first safe
country in which they set foot. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
had insisted that he would never agree to it, and it appeared he
successfully resisted it — while making a series of other concessions to
avoid tariffs. Today, however,
Mexico conceded that the issue will be on the table if the commitments made on Friday don’t produce significant reductions in immigration flow...The
joint declaration
by both countries over the agreement made that plain as well. Both
countries agreed to further review of the impact from the agreement and
“further action” if the crisis didn’t ease as a result:
Both parties also agree that, in the event the measures
adopted do not have the expected results, they will take further
actions. Therefore, the United States and Mexico will continue their
discussions on the terms of additional understandings to address
irregular migrant flows and asylum issues, to be completed and announced within 90 days, if necessary.
In other words, Mexico has 90 days to prove that the “safe third
country” protocol isn’t needed. If they don’t significantly slow down
the flow of illegal immigration, they know that Trump will be back with a
demand to implement the “safe third country” protocol — and that
they’ll have little choice at that point but to adopt it.
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