Originally posted by Kapture1
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There were talks with representatives of the Honduran and Salvadoran government and acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan last week. It is not clear what was resolved between them. My guess is that like Mexico, these two governments were not willing to agree to accept immigrants seeking asylum or, if they were trying to get to the US, unwilling to let US officials interview them on Guatemalan soil.
I'm pretty sure that stopping asylum seekers from presenting at the US boarder by holding them up in Mexico or Guatemala, then having US officials interview them there to see if they meet asylum criteria in the US, is what the Trump administration was after and if that is the case, the whole tariff threat was, not surprisingly, a failure. Reps from all three governments saw that Trump was in a political bind and, like the Chinese - who will patiently wait until the 2020 election - weren't going to give up shit.
You can't put lipstick on a pig ...... the touting of a great deal between the US and Mexico on immigration or trade is shameful buffoonery when you get down to the nuts and bolts level of the agreement. When it is shown up for what it is, essentially nothing of immediate value to the US's efforts to reduce immigration flows, it's just setting up a pattern of big stick tactics that are going to get laughed at by negotiators sitting across any kind of negotiating table from Trump's people. Count Iran and the Chinese among them.
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