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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - 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.
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