Mexico's incoming government denied
reports
Saturday that it had struck a deal with the White House to
keep asylum-seekers in the country while their claims move through U.S.
immigration courts, just hours after President Trump again threatened to
close the entire southern border if no deal could be reached between
the two counties.
The development comes as Fox
News has confirmed through an organizer for Pueblo Sin Fronteras, the
group helping organize the leading Central American migrant
caravan, that members of the caravan are expected to march peacefully to
the point of entry at San Ysidro, Calif., on Sunday at 12 p.m. ET.
The
marchers are expected to head out from the stadium, where many have
been staying, and attempt to cross the border in a major test for both
U.S. border authorities and Mexican officials. On Saturday, the first
episode of caravan-related violence directed at U.S. authorities was reported
by U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona, as a 31-year-old Honduran man who
apparently split off from the caravan threw rocks at agents and a
helicopter after setting a tree on fire.
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The prospective deal
between the U.S. and Mexico was seen as a way to dissuade thousands of
Central American migrants from seeking asylum in the U.S., a process
that can take years. The legal bar for claiming asylum is high and
generally requires applicants to show a specific risk of persecution
based on factors such as race, nationality, politics or religion.
Trump administration officials have characterized the vast majority of asylum claims as fraudulent or legally insufficient, and have taken steps
to reduce the backlog of asylum claims that they say are often used by
migrants to gain entry into the U.S. and disappear into the country as
their claims are adjudicated.
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