Washington DC, July 19: Mexico has on Thursday told the United States consistently it isn’t prepared to ink an arrangement compelling refuge seekers making heading to Washington to initially seek safe haven in Mexico, ahead of the Monday deadline, Mexico’s ambassador to the US said on Thursday.
Ambassador Martha Barcena rejected the purported “safe third country” deal days before the check runs out on an arrangement ink with US President Donald Trump in June.
Under the commitment, Mexico deflected reformatory tariffs by vowing to stem the progression of an illicit migrant flow from Central America to the US by July 22.
If it failed, Latin America’s second-biggest economy would need to acknowledge safe-third-nation status, according to Reuters news reports.
“We have said once and again that we are not ready to sign” any such agreement, Barcena said at an event in Washington DC.
Her statements come days ahead of Mexico’s foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard is scheduled this weekend to hold a meeting with US secretary of state Mike Pompeo in Mexico City to discuss trade and immigration.
Barcena additionally asked Washington to accelerate its handling of refugee claims. An ongoing Trump administration approach requires individuals looking for protection in the US to sit tight for their US court dates in Mexican border towns, some section of his hardline stance to stop the illegal movement.
“You cannot leave the people waiting in Mexico for three years,” she said.
Trump promised to construct a border wall on the southern outskirt with Mexico in his 2016 presidential statement, and has since battled with US Congress and in the courts for subsidizing to pay for the boundary.
The organization likewise declared sweeping new shelter rules on Monday that would bar practically all outsiders from applying for a refuge at the US- Mexico fringe by expecting them to initially seek a safe haven in a third nation through in line with which they had to make their way to the US.
On Thursday, Barcena portrayed the move as “unilateral,” taking note of the Mexican government does not back it and deciphers the principles as not sending migrants to Mexico but instead to their nations of origin.