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November 28, 2018

Mexico Agrees to U.S. Demand to Hold Asylum Seekers While Claims Are Decided
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In Mexico, the government of President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador
has signaled it will hold Central American migrants on Mexican soil
while they wait to hear whether their applications for political asylum
are granted by the U.S. Mexico's incoming foreign minister said Tuesday
the Trump administration should, in return, pay at least $20 billion for
a Marshall Plan-style program aimed at developing the economies of El
Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. It's not clear what services Mexico
would provide migrants hoping to win U.S. asylum. At the crossing
between Tijuana and San Diego, U.S. officials are processing only about
a hundred claims per day, even as thousands of migrants are living in
squalid, open-air camps near the border while they await their turn to
apply for asylum. CBP says the migrants may have to wait up to six weeks
to have their appeals heard.


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