Mexico Denies White House Claims That An Agreement Has Been Reached To Keep Asylum Seekers

Reuters: Trump says asylum seekers to wait in Mexico, incoming government denies

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday that migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border would stay in Mexico until their asylum claims were individually approved in U.S. courts, but Mexico’s incoming government denied they had struck any deal.

Mexico’s incoming interior minister said there was “no agreement of any type between the future government of Mexico and the United States.”

Olga Sanchez Cordero, also the top domestic policy official for president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who takes office on Dec. 1, told Reuters that the incoming government was in talks with the United States but emphasized that they could not make any agreement since they were not yet in government.

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WNU Editor: The incoming Mexican government is denying that a deal has been reached .... but they are admitting that they are in talks. My gut is telling me that they have come to an understanding, and more will be known in the coming weeks.

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