term. some steps down the road there is a court action that halts this and stops this, then the president will attempt to use that to say, well, at least i m fighting a good fight, but i think he was either going to win this or lose this step and a win is a win and he can show that he s fighting. alternatively, i think what we see going on with guatemala is that there s just been intense, consistent pressure from not just president trump and vice president pence and the entire administration carrying the stick, the threat of pulling funds and all of this has come to bear now on trying to put up some walls, if you will, some proverbial walls like the a sime you will process that gives the u.s. more ways to say no for asylum claims. trump won 2016 on immigration and his immigration focus, and the migrant caravans. it didn t work in 2018. what do you think this does to the 2020 race? well, the congressional races are different than presidential
begin with breaking news on immigration and a win for the president s efforts to build the border wall with military funds. trace gallagher is on the case tonight. a couple of big victories for donald trump but not without pushback, the president announced guatemala is signing an agreement to restrict central american asylum-seekers coming to the us, the deal being called the safe third country agreement says migrants from el salvador and honduras who cross into guatemala on their way to the us have to apply for protection in guatemala. in return agriculture workers from guatemala get wider access to temporary us visas. the hope is the new deal will ease the crush of migrant caravans coming north. we are sending a clear message to human smugglers and
president trump will do well in states such as florida despite what some people think otherwise. wanda, we have heard the president make anti immigrant threats before. it leads up to election day, talking increasingly about the issue of undocumented immigrants in this country, what he wants to do. back to before the 2018 races, the congressional races. and the president incessantly talking about the migrant caravans. we will talk more about the mass deportations next week. the president is referring to something that has been in the works for a while. sources tell us it is exaggerated. the playbook hasn t changed much. before the midterms, we saw more of this. this is the president going to his sort of, look, if you are a basketball player, you want a high percentage shot. if you are going to it s a slam dunk for him. yeah, right. yes. there are a couple of sort of
understand how dysfunctional this operation is. is this a win for the white house and the american people? it is smoke and mirrors. people, we aren t even talking immigration reform. guys, not only are we now admitting we can t get the wall built. we re now admitting. mexico is not going to pay for the wall and worse, we re going to pay for the development of jobs in mexico. not only are we admitting mexico won t pay for the wall. we ll give them money to employ the central americans who don t come here and pete: that s not what we re doing. we re not giving them any money. read between the lines. they re saying employment i m reading the lines. the lines are that mexico will offer jobs to folks who have convenient in the migrant caravans. we re not paying for the deployment of their national guards, we re not paying for asylum seekers sent back to
understand how dysfunctional this operation is. is this a win for the white house and the american people? it is smoke and mirrors. people, we aren t even talking immigration reform. guys, not only are we now admitting we can t get the wall built. we re now admitting. mexico is not going to pay for the wall and worse, we re going to pay for the development of jobs in mexico. not only are we admitting mexico won t pay for the wall. we ll give them money to employ the central americans who don t come here and pete: that s not what we re doing. we re not giving them any money. read between the lines. they re saying employment i m reading the lines. the lines are that mexico will offer jobs to folks who have convenient in the migrant caravans. we re not paying for the deployment of their national guards, we re not paying for asylum seekers sent back to