now, i talked to a senior administration official over the weekend who said look their initial offer was 5400 troops. this official said they are slow walking that just sending a few hundred to the border. so the sense from the administration is that mexico is going to start to deploy those troops immediately and will again deploy all 6,000 of them. now another agreement within this deal pertains to mexico holding migrants in mexico while their asylum claims are being processed. they had previously agreed to do this but only at certain ports of entry. senior administration official telling me now the agreement is to do this across the board. why wasn t that happening before? because neither country was committing enough resources to make sure that that was actually happening. i am told both side have now agreed to do that. president trump tweeting about all of this not just on cnbc but he said we fully sign and documented another very important part of the immigration and security deal
troops was modestly larger, up from about 5,400 and npr reports that full a federal judge blocked the implementation of that program but an appeals court said it could move forward while the legal challenge proceeds. so after averting a crisis he set into motion, president trump is now dpee that critics say will do little to curb the migrant crisis. arrests at the border have been soaring in recent months, to levels that are twice of what they were under president obama,
reelect him and 13% said they re not sure. and the president said mexico agreed to take strong measures to stop the flow of migrants but critics are arguing much of the agreement isn t all thatlen has white house. no monday morning tariffs on mexico. president trump tweeted there is now going to be great cooperation between mexico and the u.s. mr. trump, wide lily criticizedr threatening tariffs, s a sen administration official acknowledged mexico had already pledged 5,400 troops. and mexico agreed to allow nows of migrants seeking asylum to
against the wall and that s important context and a lot of people were saying this is a face saving deal. this is old wine in new bottles. here s basically the way it breaks down. the mexican national guard, according to this agreement, is going to increase its numbers on the guatemalan border. that s in the south of mexico from 5400 to 6,000. there are 1,000 that have been deployed. they were going to move that up to 5400. then a key provision, the asylum seekers. they were going to keep people who are migrating through mexico from those three central american countries trying to get in the u.s., have them wait in mexico while their asylum cases are processed in u.s. immigration courts. that, again, was a program that was already in place since january. this proposal, this agreement would allow that to expand. now today the acting secretary of homeland security, kevin mca
charlie salvage and msnbc contributor. pam molini, mother jones. you heard him say all of the components in this deal are new. is that true? well, as we just heard, not really, but there s enough wiggle room that gives the white house an argument that this is more than a deal that allowed trump to get out of the mess that he had gotten into with the business community and his own party over the tariffs which would have had disastrous economic impact including in texas. an expansion of 600 troops for an agreement and put 5400 on the border to guatemala to 6,000. that s not nothing. i don t understand myself how much of an expansion to this existing program on asylum people staying in mexico while the cases are adjudicateadjudic. if the numbers are similarly sized, this seems like a very