Deal with Mexico to curb illegal migration opens era of great cooperation: US Prez
10, Jun 2019
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CONTEXT
- The deal with Mexico to curb illegal migration opened an era of great cooperation between the two nations, something that they did not see for decades.
- Washington had announced that it reached an agreement with its southern neighbour to curb illegal migration flows from Central America to the US.
- Under the deal, Mexico will deploy its National Guard throughout the country and, especially, to its southern border and work to dismantle human smuggling.
- The United States will also return asylum seekers, crossing its southern border, to Mexico where they will wait for decisions in their cases.
- The migration deal came just days before new US tariffs on imports from Mexico were supposed to come into force.