Not Even Mexico

Cohete Rojo · Jul 12, 2018

It's safe, y'all can give up the act. Not even Mexico wants to accept these "refugees".

Exclusive: Mexico opposes U.S. plan to make it take asylum seekers - document, source

Mexico is opposed to a U.S. request to make people seeking asylum in the United States apply in Mexico instead, according to a source and a briefing note, in a setback to U.S. efforts to deepen cooperation on immigration before a leftist president takes office.

U.S. officials believe a deal known as a “Safe Third Country Agreement,” could prove a deterrent to thousands of Central Americans who travel through Mexico each year to seek U.S. asylum, clogging immigration courts and causing a headache for U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration.

Yet despite growing U.S. pressure for it to accept the treaty, Mexico views the proposal as a red line it will not cross, according to the briefing note prepared for Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray for a meeting he had with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in Guatemala on Tuesday.

“Mexico is not in the position to accept a safe third country agreement, as the United States has proposed on previous occasions,” the note says.

“Mexico has made a significant effort to provide Central Americans detained on (Mexico’s) southern border with greater information on asylum, and recently adopted measures which allow asylum applicants to work while their case is resolved.”

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Cohete Rojo · Jul 12, 2018

Nor Canada.

Flow of asylum seekers to Canada begins to slow amid traveler crackdown

The influx of asylum seekers that threw Canada’s refugee system into disarray slowed in June after also falling in May, the first two-month decline since the wave ramped up last year, according to preliminary figures from government officials and border agents.

The decrease could ease pressure on agencies aiding refugees and on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, which has come under fire for its management of the asylum seeker issue.

The number of people illegally crossing the Canada-U.S. border to claim asylum in Canada dropped to 1,869 in May, down about 27 percent from the prior month, according to the Immigration and Refugee Ministry.

Official figures for June are due out mid-month but a spokesman for Immigration and Refugee Minister Ahmed Hussen confirmed they have dropped again, defying expectations that warmer weather would lead to more people walking across the world’s longest undefended border.

Refugee claimants and lawyers in Canada and Nigeria said the drop may be due in part to a U.S. crackdown on Nigerian travelers at Canada’s request. One Lagos-based lawyer told Reuters U.S. visa officials are being more stringent with visas, adding that he has gotten calls from Nigerians who were turned back at airports despite having valid travel documents.

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conquistador#11 · Jul 12, 2018

why would they want to seek refuge in Mexico? that would defeat the entire purpose. They peel faces with broken glass and stick them on to soccer balls in Mexico. Face off..

Bandwagoner · Jul 12, 2018

conquistador#11 said: ↑

why would they want to seek refuge in Mexico? that would defeat the entire purpose. They peel faces with broken glass and stick them on to soccer balls in Mexico. Face off..

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whats the murder rate cutoff for acceptable refuge then? Chicago's murder rate rivals mexico, should they also get refuge.

I think we all realize this asylum thing is a legal maneuver, not sure why americans are playing along.

Cohete Rojo · Jul 12, 2018

Bandwagoner said: ↑

whats the murder rate cutoff for acceptable refuge then? Chicago's murder rate rivals mexico, should they also get refuge.

I think we all realize this asylum thing is a legal maneuver, not sure why americans are playing along.
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Baltimore, St. Louis, and Detroit, too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate

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