AP EXPLAINS: What changed in 90 days of immigration accord?
MarÃa Verza, Associated Press Updated 5:29 pm CDT, Wednesday, September 4, 2019
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Since last year's caravans of Central American migrants began reaching the U.S. border, the Trump administration had been increasing pressure on Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to stop the flow of migrants. But it was the threat of tariffs on all Mexican imports, which could have had damaging effects for both economies, that led to the June 7 agreement whose results will be reviewed Thursday.
These are the agreement's key points and an explanation of how immigration policy has changed in the past 90 days:
WHAT DID THEY AGREE TO?
Mexico promised to reinforce its controls to contain migrants who enter and cross the country irregularly. It also committed to accepting and giving basic services to asylum applicants sent back to Mexico through the so-called "Remain in Mexico" program to await the process taking place in the U.S.
The only concrete promise Washington made, beside millions of dollars in aid to Central America, was to speed up the processing of asylum applications.
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