down the line from the biden administration but in the short term, what is agreed to is accepting 30,000 deportees from the us that held from four different countries, venezuela, haiti, cuba and nicaragua, and the grip of economic and political crisis and that is going to be happening on top of an immigration system in this country thatis immigration system in this country that is already struggling to cope. and you mention this is notjust people from mexico but people using mexico as a conduit to reach the united states. when title 42 expires, does mexico have the capability to take care of these people will really be looking to send them back to countries like guatemala, venezuela, cuba, haiti and so on? fin guatemala, venezuela, cuba, haiti and so on? and so on? on some level it could have the resources and so on? on some level it could have the resources and and so on? on some level it could have the resources and the - and so on? on some level it could - have the resources a
which is declared a state of emergency of the last few days in anticipation of a surge in people attempting to cross the border before title 42 expires. our correspondentjoins us from mexico city and get to see you, what is the feeling among officials in mexico about this looming expiration of title 42? , , ., , ., ., title 42? the president had shown a united front title 42? the president had shown a united front with title 42? the president had shown a united front with the title 42? the president had shown a united front with the biden - united front with the biden administration on this issue partly by sending troops to the southern border, mexico s border with guatemala in anticipation of this uptick in the number of undocumented migrants trying to come in once title 42 expires. the reality is that the biden administrations policy does not work without mexico s tacit cooperation and cannot be done without their support, essentially. ithink cannot be done without their suppor
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regularly. would it have helped to have a republican there? republicans were there on the ground. people that we talked to. donald trump used to come regularly to me border. he never invited me along. so that just happens. but we always work in a bipartisan way. this bill that i m talking about the safe zone act is a bipartisan bill and we ll continue reaching across the aisle and talking to our republican friends. so in terms of the bill, so currently under current u.s. immigration law, they have to be present or at the border to claim asylum. they can t do it in another country. part of the safe zone act that you re proposing would change that. allowing them to apply for asylum before they get close to the southern border. that is right. how much support do you in congress for we re going to have a lot of support for this bill. i had to discuss it with the president and i m discussing with president in guatemala next week and it creates a zone in guatemala as the first
these countries. efforts to show high level engagement with latin american have not just fizzled but politically toxic. what kind of accomplishments can the administration point to in central america that they have done anything right? well, it s very few accomplishments. these countries, when yo go down there to engage them on illegal immigration, they want to know what you re doing. instead of the u.s. asking them to do more and more, which i assume the biden administration is doing, they re looking north and saying why isn t the u.s. government, why isn t this administration enforcing its own laws along the southern border so it helps us with in guatemala, honduras or el salvador to do their job better. they don t have the same relationships that we did in the trump administration. you ve seen photos in mexico of police escorting buses to the northern border. so all of these things are problematic.