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The united states for months now. they promised months ago to deploy their new national guard in this way. and basically, the same amount of numbers. and the agreement on asylum seekers making, giving the united states the ability to send asylum seekers to wait in mexico had already been painstakingly negotiated at the end of last year. the mexicans say that they are going to increase the sort of speed at which theyre willing to let that kind of, to let that continue to happen across the border....

Be talking to parts of america where there are real concerns about the impact of tariffs on agriculture and other sectors of the american economy. >> the mexico side also tweeting, the ambassador to the u.s., saying that mexico will strengthen measures for the application of its immigration law. she added that the country will give health, employment, and education opportunities to people waiting in mexico during their asylum process. nathan, do we have a sense of how likely that is and how this...

Heres a little bit of what mexico agreed to. they agreed to deploy thousands of national guard troops throughout its country including to its southern border to stop the flow of central american migrants moving up through mexico to get to the u.s., vowed to try to disrupt human smuggling operations in mexico, to let some migrants caught crossing the u.s. border illegally to wait in mexico while asylum claims are being processed. thats something the trump administration had long been pushing to e...

Sort of allow more asylum seekers, to be forced to stay in mexico, while their asylum process happens and it appears some more migrants will stay in mexico, and mexico seems to be setting up ways to provide education and health care for those people. i think it will be very interesting to see how far that agreement actually goes. >> so how soon do you think it will be before there is any sort of determination that this is or is not working? i mean are we talking about next month and comparing th...

Deploy the mexican national guard throughout more of the country. what impact that has remains to be seen. and as also, as we know, there have been times where, when the united states seems to crack down, that actually spurs more people to come forward, up from the central american countries because they think this is the last chance to make their way into the united states. >> it sounds like the onus is really on mexico and the steps they are going to take but we also do know that this will tak...

The u.s. to be returned to mexico as they await a decision on asylum claims. the u.s. has agreed to speed up the asylum process. cnn white house correspondent sarah westwood, what are you hearing this morning? >> reporter: president trump is up and touting the agreement this morning that his administration reached with mexican officials, hes saying that everyone is "very excited about the agreement," his words. this agreement caused him to back off that threat to impose a 5% tariff on all good...

Asylum process, well take care of those people in mexico while they wait the process out. so the u.s. didnt fully get what it wanted on asylum, but it did get something. what the u.s. will have to give up though is that it agreed to speed up the asylum aprocess an to contribute more to development program, development assist tabs, not just in central, but in southern mexico. that is something that the trump administration recently cut off. but mexico insisted that the u.s. contribute to the root...

Actually devote resources that would enable the asylum process to be expedited, including more immigration judges. he has been reticent to do anything within the united states and has instead preferred to blame everyone but himself for whats gone wrong on immigration policy. we look at this joint declaration and the mexicans have said that theyre going to deploy 6,000 national guard members throughout mexico. to katherines point this may be an empty victory. the national guard was just created i...

And this is going to take some time. it is unclear that is going to affect the numbers right away but clearly that needed to be done. also, mexico is going to take in all of the people who make it to the u.s. border, and seek asylum, and mexico says it will take care of them, it will give them a work permit, and education, and health care, and you know, the u.s. is already doing that, on a somewhat smaller scale, so that is going to be an expansion of that. in return, the u.s. also agreed to som...

Mexico as they await a decision on their asylum claims. in exchange, the u.s. has agreed to speed up the asylum process. >> we go to the white house with more on the deal with cnn white house correspondent sara westwood. >> reporter: good morning, after the marathon talks at the state department, and three days of really intense negotiations, between mexican socials who had come to washington and people from the trump administration, a deal was reached late last night, that would involve the mex...