Mexico's new president signs deal to stop migrants

[rangerrebew]

    Mexico's new president signs deal to stop migrants


    By - Associated Press - Sunday, December 2, 2018

    In one of his first acts in office, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has signed an agreement with his counterparts from three Central American countries to establish a development plan to stem the flow of migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.

    The Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the plan includes a fund to generate jobs in the region and aims to attack the structural causes of migration from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

    Thousands of migrants, mostly Hondurans, have joined caravans in recent weeks in an effort to speed through Mexico to request refuge at the U.S. border.


    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...ew-president-/

[thackney]

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...ew-president-/

@rangerrebew

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[thackney]

...In a deal that will likely delight Donald Trump, Mr Lopez Obrador agreed with the presidents of Honduras and Guatemala, and the vice-president of El Salvador, to create a fund to stem the US-bound flows of migrants.

Leaders of the four countries have agreed to ask their finance ministries, in the first quarter of 2019, to come up with a plan which includes “programmes, projects, and specific actions, for the sake of jobs generation and poverty fight in the region.”

The programmes will be supported by an “integral development plan”, aimed at making the Central American nations a better place to live, and thus reduce the number of those leaving. It will be backed by CEPAL - the economic commission for Latin America and the Caribbean....

...More controversial to the assembled deputies and dignitaries was Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan president, who was forced to stay away from the ceremony owing to massive protests. When his name was mentioned, politicians yelled “dictator!” and marched to the front of the podium, unfurling a banner which read: “Nicolas Maduro, you are not welcome”....

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/02/mexicos-new-president-announces-us-migration-deal-thanks-friend/

[Fishrrman]

Sounds like a "paper plan" that will do nothing to stop the actual movement of those who try to cross borders and head north.

Now if the plan included border barriers on all the borders of the countries involved, THAT would be some progress to "stopping" them.

[Chosen Daughter]

Sounds like a "paper plan" that will do nothing to stop the actual movement of those who try to cross borders and head north.

Now if the plan included border barriers on all the borders of the countries involved, THAT would be some progress to "stopping" them.

Sounds like more plans to rob Americans.  The money will likely end up in the hands of corrupt leaders who will not create one job.