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U.S. and Mexico Draft Deal to End Asylum Catch and Release

Deputies for President Donald Trump and the incoming president of Mexico have penciled a deal that would require asylum-seeking migrants to wait in Mexico until their asylum pleas are heard in U.S. courts, says a report in the Washington Post.

The plan is titled “Remain in Mexico,” said the Post report:

MEXICO CITY — The Trump administration has won the support of Mexico’s incoming government for a plan to remake U.S. border policy by requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims move through U.S. courts, according to Mexican officials and senior members of president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s transition team.

“For now, we have agreed to this policy of Remain in Mexico,” said Olga Sánchez Cordero, Mexico’s incoming interior minister, the top domestic policy official for López Obrador, who takes office Dec. 1. In an interview with The Washington Post, she called it a “short-term solution.”

The Washington Post suggested the deal was reached because of diplomatic pressure by President Trump:

Alarmed by Trump’s deployment of U.S. military forces to California, Arizona and Texas, and his threats to close busy border crossings, Mexican officials were further determined to take action after migrants traveling as part of a caravan forced their way onto Mexican soil last month, pushing past police blockades at the border with Guatemala.

The Remain in Mexico deal may sharply reduce the number of asylum-claiming economic migrants who are released into the United States pending a judge’s decision on their asylum claim.

They are being released into the U.S. jobs market because Congress does not provide enough detention space to hold all of the economic migrants who delay their deportation by asking for asylum. That asylum process can take years, so there are more than 200,000 migrants working in the United States pending decisions in asylum court cases.

Also, the cartel-affiliated coyotes will lose much revenue if few of their clients are released into the United States because of the Remain in Mexico deal.

The coyotes earn their money because their smuggled clients believe they will be able to pay their smuggling debts once they are caught and released into the U.S. jobs market. But if the migrants are sent back to Mexico instead of being released into the United States, they will not be able to pay their smuggling debts to the coyotes, and fewer will hire the smugglers to take them north.

Often, the migrants mortgage their homes to pay the coyotes’ up-front fees. One migrant described the labor-trafficking process to the Washington Post:

Reached by phone in Kansas City, [Denys Adelmo] Mejia said he saved thousands of dollars by traveling with a child. His smuggler would have charged $10,000 if he had been traveling alone, he said; with Elizabeth Dayana, it cost $4,500 for both of them. He has three years to pay this off — in monthly installments — or his mother [in Guatemala] could lose her house.

The asylum courts allow very few smuggled migrants to stay in the United States, although many remain working as illegal migrants:

NYT, WashPo, AP now admit the 2nd ‘caravan’ migrants openly say they are trying to get US jobs, not fleeing from criminal gangs. Media also admits migrants knowingly bring kids to get through the Flores loophole. OK, less media condescension = more truth https://t.co/QP8AQeEZCq

— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) October 19, 2018

However, the Remain in Mexico deal would likely prompt many migrants who want jobs in the United States to sneak over the border. The illegal migrants can still apply for asylum — and perhaps trigger catch and release — after they are caught because of laws and court rules which progressives and business groups champion.

Elite pro-migration groups quickly announced their opposition to the Remain in Mexico deal, even though it may help nudge up wages for U.S. blue-collar workers. The Washington Post reported, “We have not seen a specific proposal, but any policy that would leave individuals stranded in Mexico would inevitably put people in danger,” said Lee Gelernt, an ACLU attorney”:

ACLU etc. get a friend in the 9th circuit to block the President ‘s defense of the nation’s borders, despite competing clauses in 1965 law. Pity about elections, votes & Americans’ wages, but investors want cheap labor & postgrads want cheap services. https://t.co/QWpm2BmBKb

— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) November 20, 2018

The Remain in Mexico plan may also drive down wages in Mexico because the growing number of Central American migrants may be employed by Mexican companies. The effective result would be the diversion and export of Americans’ problem of cheap-labor migration from the United States to Mexico.

In the United States, the establishment’s economic policy of using migration to boost economic growth shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap white-collar and blue-collar foreign labor. That flood of outside labor spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees.

The policy also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least five million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.

Immigration also pulls investment and wealth away from heartland states because coastal investors can more easily hire and supervise the large immigrant populations living in the coastal states.

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Courtesy of The Information Clearinghouse and the On The Media podcast:

Earlier this month, On The Media producer her family, and her friends were detained for hours by US Customs and Border Protection on their way home from Canada. Everyone being held was a US citizen, and no one received an explanation. Sarah tells the story of their detainment, and her difficulty getting any answers from one of the least transparent agencies in the country.

On Labor Day, OTM producer Sarah Abdurrahman was headed back to New York from her cousin's wedding near Toronto, when she was detained, along with a carload of family and friends, for six hours, without explanation, by US Border Patrol agents at Niagara Falls. Everyone in the car was a US citizen. Here's what happened at Niagara Falls and what she learned and didn't learn after.

The story has multiple US citizens returning from Canada being held for 6-hours. Officers lied to them, stole electronic devices belonging to them, asked them invasive personal questions, aggressively searched them, handcuffed parents in front of their children and generally harassed them, all with little reason. The excuse was that the driver had an unpaid ticket from 2006 for a crooked license plate.

Here's the podcast detailing some of what is happening at the US boarder. Worth hearing if you're not exactly sure how bad things have gotten.

It concludes:

I really just felt so stupid, like how naïve was I to think that when we came back into the country, all smiles and happy to be home, that this wouldn't happen? You know, you always hear this over and over and over again: You don't do anything wrong, you’ve got nothing to hide, you’re fine. And I really thought if there's due process, if there’s a legal system and I haven't done anything wrong, then nobody will treat me that way, and if somebody does treat me that way, there’s gonna be some sort of accountability later, for that. And what I'm discovering is there's nothing that any of us can do, absolutely nothing. Those guys at the front lines that have no oversight on what they're doing, they’re the invincible ones.

B.C. resident Robert Docherty, who had more than $10,000 in cash seized by Canadian customs officers at Toronto's Pearson International Airport.

Under Canada's Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act, the Maple Ridge wild-mushroom picker was entitled to carry carry $10,000, and not a dollar more, out of the country without declaring it.

According to the National Post, Docherty was boarding a flight to Costa Rica in November 2010 when a dog trained to sniff out money (they have those?) found Docherty's stash of cash.

There was $9,880 in U.S. currency and another $335 Canadian. Docherty explained he'd calculated the Canada-U.S. exchange rate so the total amount to come in under the $10,000 limit.

The trouble was that by the time he took his flight two days later, the U.S. dollar had strengthened, making his package worth more than $10,000 Canadian.