dagen. which perfect sense. we have jobs that are open. we talked about people coming up in claiming asylum because that s the way to get in when we want to come for economic reasons and we need workers who can sort through all those people and figure out who would work with in our system. but congress sits around and does nothing. dagen: and this does dovetail. what could happen, and in a vague tweet it wasn t very specific, yesterday, talking about a fully signed and documented very important part of the immigration security deal with mexico. it s going to be on an asylum overhaul in mexico. people seeking asylum would have to claim in there and not here in the united states united states. melissa: and wait. dagen: they would have to claim asylum there in central america central america. senator graham it s called a safe third country designation. migrants fling their homeland to pass the mexico, you apply for asylum there. but senator graham, as part of his secure and prot
agreement on migration that averts the implementation of president trump s tariffs on mexican goods. president trump took to twitter friday night to announce the deal under which mexico will deploy 6,000 national guard troops throughout the country, mainly to its southern border with guatemala. it expands a program called migrant protection protocols which allows u.s. immigration enforcement officials to send central american migrants to mexico. they will offer those migrant, jobs, health care and education. the agreement doesn t include a demand that mexico agree to a safe third country designation which would have required the country to permanently accept most asylum seekers from central america. despite president trump touting the agreement as a new deal just how new the terms are, that s up for debate. the new york times reports that mexico had previously agreed to deploy its national guard during high level secret
the agreement does not include a major trump administration demand that mexico agree to a, quote, safe third country designation, which would have required the country to permanently accept most asylum seekers from central america. so mika, this obviously, the president pushed this as really great news, this past weekend. but, of course, controversy arose immediately, because many people in mexico, in the united states, and also many reporters were saying, this deal was nothing new. so there s, a back and forth all weekend over whether this deal was new or not. well, trump called it a, quote, new deal, but that s up for debate. the new york times reports that mexico had previously agreed to deploy its national guard during high-level secret talks back in march. a senior administration official told nbc news that some key
give. there s a wide space between what mexico is proposing and what the white house wants specifically. and on that safe third country designation, mexico so far has called that a red line. so that would seem to be a deal breaker for both parties. i spoke to a senior administration official who said he does believe that a deal is likely but it s nearly impossible for that to happen by monday. his best estimation was that a deal would happen before july 1st. that s when tariffs go to 10%, but that it would come after tariffs begin at 5% this monday and certainly that s going to be unwelcome news for many in the business community specifically. could we expect the president will say let s just kick the can down the road? we ve seen him do it before getting close to negotiations and not implementing tariffs but saying let me give it a bit more time. sometimes, stephanie, his hand is forced on that from the technical side of things. remember, customs and border patrol has to write a c