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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.
In the silencer cases, Kan-
sas and seven other states
joined in a court fi ling urging
justices to hear the appeals.
The states said the court
should affi rm that the Second
Amendment protects “silenc-
ers and other fi rearms acces-
sories.” The other states are
Arkansas, Idaho, Louisiana,
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to Mexico as they wait out
their cases. 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
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