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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 mexico stepping up its Immigration Enforcement actions. The mexican ambassador describes what mexico agreed to, as unprecedented steps. Take a listen to what the mexican ambassador had to say. As a result of these discussion, the United States and mexico commit to a mexican enforcement search, mexico wail take unprecedented steps to increase enforcement to curve irregular migration to include the deployment of its National Guard throughout mexico, given priority to its southern border. Mexico is also taking Decisive Action to dismantle human smuggling and trafficking organizations as well as their illicit financial and transportation networks. Now, President Trump had threatened to impose 5 tariffs on all imports from mexico, starting monday and that 5 would have ratcheted up progressively to the fall until it hit 25 , unless mexico agreed to do more to stop the flow of illegal immigration into the u. S. The department of Homeland Security customs and border protection, they have been describing the situation at the southern border as a crisis, as more mig grans seeking asylum, many of them families, come into the u. S. And we have run out of detention space, along the southern border, thats according to the trump administration. So President Trump announced this deal on twitter yesterday. Writing, i am pleased to inform you that the United States has reached a signed agreement with mexico. The tariffs scheduled to be implemented by the u. S. On monday against mexico are hereby indefinitely suspended. Mexico in turn has agreed to take strong measures to stem the tide of migration through mexico into our southern border. This is being done to greatly reduce or eliminate illegal immigration coming from mexico and into the United States. Details of the agreement will be reached shortly by the state department. Thank you. President trumps threat to impose these tariffs had rankled republicans on capitol hill who did not like the Economic Uncertainty introduced by the president s tariff threats but as you mentioned, this seems to be a crisis averted as the tariffs are now no longer going into effect, in just a couple of days. Sara westwood for us at the white house thank you. With the increased border enforcement and helping breaking up trafficking networks, the u. S. Got almost everything it wanted from mexico. The talks with go on for another three months as the u. S. And mexico are continuing to focus on migrant crossings and asylum issues. Dianne gallagher is live with us from el paso, texas, with mexicos reaction to this deal. Good morning to you. What you are hearing this morning . Reporter good morning, look, im going to tell you here in el paso, on both sides of the border right now, there is relief there wont be any sort of tariffs implemented. The president of mexico tweeted shortly after President Trump did, saying, thanking all mexicans, saying it was impossible to avoid the imposition of tariffs on mexican products to the United States and noted the foreign minister will give details of the arrangement and noted they will gather today, in tijuana at 5 00 in the afternoon, to celebrate. Initially that was kind of planned as almost a protest for people who wanted to speak out against these tariffs, for fear that they were going to be implemented yesterday. Based on some of the rhetoric from the president. Look, here in el paso, they have seen one of the greatest increases in people crossing the border, trying to come here, claim asylum, try to come here, visit family members, live with family members, who are already here. Just last month, 1033133,000 people were apprehended trying to cross the border illegal limit most of them families. 11,000 of them, a little more than were unaccompanied children and theyre experiencing that overcrowding not just in the Processing Centers but the shelters here. They have had to fly them to other states. Fly them to other cities. While they await trying to go through this process. And so in some cases, it may alleviate some of that backlog, by sending those people who are waiting for asylum, to either be approved or denied back to mexico. But look, weve seen reports from juarez across the border, a lot of people waiting there dont necessarily feel safe either. This is likely going to open up a new can of worms for people who live in these border communities and to be very honest, the last time the president announced some of these more strict type of immigration regulations, thats when we started to see this surge in migration from those northern triangle countries. A lot of experts believe that the more that the rhetoric is punched up in the United States, because they are paying attention, theyre being told, hey, you need to go ahead and get there now, before you wont be able to get there at all. So in part, they believe that is due to why were seeing this extreme spike in immigration here, over the past couple of months. And so we will see if this is going to have any sort of effect in the coming, you know, 90 days. No doubt. Dianne gallagher, thank you so much. With us now, cnn political commentator errol lewis. Good morning toe you. Good morning. I i want to start here were about ten hours out from the resolution of this tariff threat. Can the president s supporters justifiably this morning call this a win for his nation . Oh, sure. Absolutely, they can. The president himself has taken credit for this in the past. Saying that it is his tough talk. It is his threat of trade wars. That has changed policies. Now, we saw the statement from the Mexican Government. If the mexican ambassador, if i can read her body language correctly and the words she was reading, theyre going to make a good faith effort. Will that effort actually stop the flow of migrants passing from central america, up through mexico, to the u. S. Border . I doubt it. But theyre going to make a good faith effort. The administration here will claim victory. The Mexican Administration will say were doing the best we can. Will the numbers actually change, however, is a different question. There are of course a question, if you redeploy Mexican Forces to the southern border, that takes them away from fighting the drug cartels, fighting organized crime, and the numbers of migrants, staying the same, is a switch in one nationality for another. Thats right. Listen, everything we know about this suggests that the near collapse of the government in honduras, the inability to maintain law and order, theyre rampaging gangs that are creating a humanitarian disaster down there, are the force that is pushing all of these migrants north. It is not the ineffectiveness of the Mexican Government. It is not even their ability to sort of go in and stop things from happening in guatemala and honduras. Because they dont have that ability. Only the u. S. Has i think the capability of providing the aid and the guidance and really trying to sort of stabilize those societies. If thats not going to happen, we are going to continue to see a flow of people desperately seeking safety, and theyre going to be heading north. Lets talk about the strategy here, because the president made a very similar threat just two months ago. In march there were 104,000 apprehensions at the southern border. March 29, the president tweeted this. If mexico doesnt immediately stop all illegal immigration coming into the United States, through our southern border, i will be closing the border, or large sections of the border next week. That week came and went. He didnt close the border. In may, there were 144,000, and the pattern repeats. May 30, he tweeted the United States will impose a 5 tariff on all goods coming into our country from mexico until such times migrants coming into our country stop. How plausible were these tariffs from the beginning . Or was it just about the threat that his party knew he wasnt going to stick with him and he got the influence from the chamber of commerce and the rest . Sure, the strategy seems to be to threaten to disrupt things on both sides of the border. Look, thats consistent with everything he said since he hit the campaign trail in 2015, victor i will disrupt things, even if it is not practical, even if is not plausible, even if it wont accomplish the goal, this is what i am going to do. So mexico sends about 345 billion of goods every year. So 5 tariff would have been in the 17 billion range. It would have been enormously disruptive to mexican companies, to the u. S. Supply chains, the temp tile firms, the automobile industry, all of the people here on this side of the border who rely on those goods and services, so yes, we could have, you know, figured it out and i suppose everybody could have readjusted their prices. In the end, the American Consumer would have taken that 17 billion hit. Those republican snores wou sen been in revolt against the president. In the end we dont know if he intended to go through with it but that is his style. I will create a lot of pain and misery and confusion and elevated costs including from my own constituents unless you give me what i want. They gave him what he wanted. He wanted i guess was a statement that the Mexican Government will try and do better. I have severe doubts, i would be very surprised, if they can actually stop the flow of migrants. I mean it is just not in the nature of the situation that you can stop what is a flow of people who are seeking safety. I mean theyre not coming for economic opportunity, victor. Theyre not coming to annoy the president. Theyre coming because theyre trying to save their lives. And there is still the question of what is the number that will satisfy the president , that has not been articulated since the start of these threats from the president. Well see. We will have a member of congress up later this morning, if he has a specific number that will satisfy the president and his administration. Errol lewis, stick with us, a lot more to talk about in a few minutes. Lets talk about those numbers. Because the shear number of crossings is very clear. If youre wondering what is happening down there, look at what cnn found when we went to the border yesterday. What we witnessed and what youre about to see was chaotic, depressing, emotional and sad. We spent part of the afternoon with agents from u. S. Border patrol. In a van with them. As they patrolled the border near el paso, texas. And what we saw in a 60minute span, was them apprehend eight different family units. 25 people, most of them children, and every five or 10 people, people were coming out of the rio grande. The first person was wanna emaciated 25 years old with a 6monthold son and 9yearold son. And she had to go to guatemala, and they had gotten to the United States she had heard in her town, as long as they had children with them. And sandy from honduras, she didnt come with children, she is about to have children, and eight and a half months pregnant, with training and buses and walk to the United States and her husband and brother was killed by gang members and afraid it would happen to her too and she had to leave and had to come here and a man and his two sons after he was apprehended by Border Patrol, he started crying. Tears of happiness, he sasz that he made it. With his son. With his son. He is very happy. And we saw that from many of the people, crying out of a sense of relief, crying out of happiness when they got here and realized they were no longer on this journey. Something very notable, the rio grande is what separates texas from mexico. The middle of the rio grande is the border. Here it is relatively dry area. And they saw a fence a thousand feet to the north of the river. And the Border Patrol says you are already in the United States, and they were relieved. The fence does nothing to stop people coming into the United States. The Border Agents are very professional, theyre very considerate, theyre ambassadors to this country and they do a great job. Being an ambassador to these people who have gone through an awful lot. This is gary tuchman, cnn, in el paso texas. Still to come, things get personal after the president calls the speaker of the house a disgrace to herself and to her family. How the speaker is responding. And a summer surge of measles . Yes, what were learning about the most recent case of measles, and how it could impact Summer Travel. Also, a series of mysterious deaths at a Dominican Republic hotel. Investigators search for what may have caused three american tourists to die within days of one another. 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Angry people like nancy pelosi who doesnt have what it takes, they dont know what is going on, they get angry. She a terrible person. And i will tell you, the name, it is nervous nancy, because she is a nervous wreck. Now the speaker who is also in normandy at the time told reporter these had a policy of not criticizing the president while out of the country. Listen to this. I dont talk about the president when im out of the country. Thats my principle. So i wont go there. With all due respect to your question, im not shear , here o talk about excitement. Errol louis is here. Thank you so much. I want to ask you about this battle. The speaker and the democrats have their own battle going on in terms of whether to bring an impeachment in inquiry to the table. A lot of democrats say listen, this is our duty, this is the law, Robert Mueller said if there had been no obstruction, i would have said there was no obstruction, is this the speaker, playing politics . Well, yes, and that is entirely appropriate, i must tell you, i mean impeachment is a political process. It is not a Court Proceeding. It resembles in some ways a Court Proceeding but in the end it is the vote of a bunch of politicians and politicians cast vote force political reasons. It so happens that nancy pelosi as a skilled politician knows how to count votes and shes not made any secret of the fact that she does not necessarily have the votes for an impeachment. And so you know, asking her to behave politically, when youve got, what, 30 votes, 40 votes, when you actually need about 218, that is a formula for some real discomfort. Because nancy pelosi is not going to hold a vote that she cant win. Is she only playing politics to protect democrats in 2020 . Does this have a lot more to do with not just the numbers in congress but the numbers in the 2020 election . Look, that is serge flows

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