There are really only two rational responses to the actions of US President Donald Trump - spontaneous loud laughter or appalled silence.
This time it was the laughter......
The
Guardian, 12
June 2019:
Mexico’s foreign
minister, Marcelo Ebrard, said Mexico also agreed to a 45-day timeline to show
increased enforcement efforts were effective in reducing the people flows. If
that fails, Mexico has agreed to consider a longstanding US demand that Central
American asylum seekers crossing through Mexico apply for refuge there, not the
United States, making Mexico a “safe third country”, a demand that Mexico has
long rejected.
“Safe third country
could be applied if we fail, and we accept what they say,” Ebrard said on
Tuesday evening, noting that Mexican legislators would then give consideration to
accommodating a change in migration law.
Nevertheless, Ebrard
said other Latin American countries should share the burden, something that the
United States appeared to have agreed to.
The document that Trump
waved at reporters laid out “a regional approach to burden-sharing in relation
to the processing of refugee status claims to migrants”; talked of “45 days”;
and said Mexico had committed to immediately examine its laws and rules to
enable it to implement such an agreement.
Snapshot of the piece of paper Trump was waving about.......
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