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Mexico: We might have to adopt a “safe third country” protocol if this agreement doesn’t work hotair.com/archives/2019/…
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
