In a Twitter post on Monday morning, he said, “We have fully signed and documented another very important part of the Immigration and Security deal with Mexico, one that the U.S. has been asking about getting for many years. The numbers will be reviewed in 45 days and again in 90 days, officials said. That was the understanding described by Mr. Ebrard, that if the numbers of migrants have not been substantially reduced, Mexico had agreed to discuss regional asylum changes that they had resisted for years. One of those ideas, “third safe country” arrangement, could eventually give the United States more legal authority to turn asylum seekers away at its southwestern border. “We said it will have to be with the UNHCR, it will have to be regional,” he said, referring to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Source: New York Times June 10, 2019 16:07 UTC