A7 THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2019 Mexico denies Trump’s claim of secret concessions in deal By JILL COLVIN, COLLEEN LONG and MARIA VERZA Associated Press STERLING, Va. — Three days after President Donald Trump announced a deal with Mexico to stem the fl ow of migrants at the southern border, the two countries appear unable to agree on exactly what’s in it. Stung by criticism that the agreement mostly ramps up border protection efforts already underway, Trump on Monday hinted at other, secret agreements he says will soon be revealed. “We have fully signed and documented another very important part of the Immigration and Secu- rity deal with Mexico, one that the U.S. has been ask- ing about getting for many years,” Trump wrote Mon- day, saying it would “be revealed in the not too dis- tant future.” Not so, said Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, holding up a paper and pointing to the previ- ously announced details. He told reporters the two coun- tries agreed on two actions made public Friday and said if those measures didn’t work to slow migration, they would discuss further options. “There is no other thing beyond what I have just explained,” he said. The episode revealed the complicated politi- cal dynamics at play as Trump and Mexican Presi- dent Andrés Manuel López Obrador tussle over who made out best in the agree- ment hashed out under Trump’s threat of new tariffs on Mexico. Trump appeared eager to declare his negotia- tion tactics successful, even as he tried to hype the deal with made-for-TV drama and invented measures, sparking questions and con- fusion. Mexico’s leaders showed they weren’t will- AP Photo/Marco Ugarte Migrants travel from Guatemala to Mexico on a raft across the Suchiate River on Sunday. ing to play along. The White House did not respond to inquiries about Trump’s tweets. But the president appeared to be making a reference to talks over how Mexico handles Central American migrants who travel through the country to claim asylum in the U.S. The Trump administra- tion has been trying to pres- sure Mexico to enter into a “safe third country” agree- ment, which would deem Mexico a safe place for migrants and make it harder for asylum seekers who pass through the country to wait until they reach American soil to fi le a claim. But the deal announced Friday made no mention of the issue. A senior administration offi cial, speaking on condi- tion of anonymity to share details of closed-door talks, said Mexico had expressed openness to the idea during negotiations, and said the two countries would con- tinue to discuss the issue over the coming months. Mexico has been insis- tent that it has not agreed to the provision, which would require approval from local lawmakers. Instead, Ebrard said during a press conference in Mexico City Monday, if the deal announced Friday does not begin to drive down migrant numbers in the next 45 days, offi cials will open up new discussions in which the U.S. will again push for the safe third country mea- sure and Mexico will pro- pose establishing a regional refuge system in conjunc- tion with the United Nations and the governments of Guatemala, Panama and Brazil — three countries that are often starting points for migrants headed to the U.S. “They wanted some- thing else totally different ... to be signed,” Ebrard said Monday. “But that is what there is here. There is no other thing.” As for Trump’s Supreme Court rejects challenge to regulation of gun silencers Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court rejected a challenge to federal regulation of gun silencers Monday, just days after a gunman used one in a shooting rampage that killed 12 people in Virginia. The justices did not com- ment in turning away appeals from two Kansas men who were convicted of violating federal law regulating silenc- ers. The men argued that the constitutional right “to keep and bear arms” includes silencers. The court’s action in the silencer cases was among dozens of orders in pending appeals, including decisions to add an international child custody dispute and four other cases to next term’s docket. The justices also will hear cases dealing with a death row inmate in Arizona, racial discrimination claims against Comcast by an African Amer- ican owned media com- pany, environmental cleanup at a Superfund site in Mon- tana and a dispute between Intel Corp. and a retired Intel engineer. The court also rejected an appeal from a Yemeni man who has been held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base for more than 17 years. But Justice Stephen Breyer said “it is past time” for the court to decide whether indefi nite detention at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba is legal. 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U.S. offi cials had been working to expand the program, which has led to the return of about 11,000 to Mexico without Mexico’s public embrace. Trump and other admin- istration offi cials, however, say Mexico made major concessions and have cred- ited his threat to slap a 5% tax on all Mexican goods if the country didn’t imme- diately agree to do more to stem the fl ow of Central American migrants across the U.S. southern border. Without the threat, Trump has insisted, Mexico never would have acted. “It was all done because of the tariffs and because of the relationship that we have with Mexico,” he told reporters Monday, follow- ing a call-in interview with CNBC Monday morning in which he said offi cials had “talked about it for months and months and months,” but couldn’t reach agree- ment until the threat. to reveal the details of any such provision, and Mexi- can offi cials say no agree- ment on farm goods was reached as part of the talks. Ebrard told reporters the talks had focused on migra- tion, not commerce, and hypothesized that Trump was calculating an eco- nomic boost resulting from his decision not to imple- ment the tariffs. “We do not have a spe- cifi c agreement on products of that nature,” he said. Trump has spent the days since Friday’s announce- ment defending the scope of the deal. That includes a commit- ment by Mexico to deploy its new National Guard to the country’s south- ern border with Guatemala — something the coun- try already intended to do before Trump’s latest threat. It also includes an agree- ment to publicly support the expansion of a program under which some asy- lum seekers are returned OREGON CAPITAL Montana, South Carolina, Texas and Utah. President Donald Trump’s administration asked the court to stay out of the case and leave the convictions in place. Shane Cox, owner of a military surplus store, was convicted of making and transferring an unregistered silencer, and customer Jeremy Kettler was convicted of pos- sessing one, all in violation of the 85-year-old National Fire- arms Act. Both men were sen- tenced to probation. Meanwhile, police are try- ing to determine a motive for the deadly shootings in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Authorities have said that city employee DeWayne Crad- dock opened fi re in a munici- pal building on May 31. Police say Craddock was armed with two semiautomatic hand- guns, a silencer and extended ammunition magazines. FRIDAY tweets hyping a secret mea- sure? Ebrard said he’d pro- vided a full account for transparency’s sake. A regional asylum com- pact like the one Ebrard described could have major implications for asylum seekers, said Sarah Pierce, an analyst at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. “While in theory such an agreement would share the burden of refugee fl ows across several countries, in reality it could signifi cantly worsen the current situa- tion if the designated coun- tries are unable or unwill- ing to properly accept and integrate the migrants,” she said. Over the weekend, Trump also claimed another new element of the deal, tweeting that Mexico had “AGREED TO IMMEDI- ATELY BEGIN BUYING LARGE QUANTITIES OF AGRICULTURAL PROD- UCT FROM OUR GREAT PATRIOT FARMERS!” The administration has yet Corvallis 94/64 Albany 94/63 John Day Eugene Bend 93/63 89/56 86/57 Ontario 91/58 Caldwell Burns 87/56 86/52 Medford 104/66 Klamath Falls 92/53 City Baker City Brookings Ilwaco Newberg Newport Today Hi/Lo/W 85/49/s 74/57/s 73/60/s 94/64/s 72/54/s Wed. 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