ratification of the north american trade dealment tonight a senior mexican official said that that ratification process was stronger than ever. shannon. shannon: thank you very much, kristin. we know this is a president who prides himself on the art of the deal and now it looks like you got one. let s bring in fox news contributor richard fowler and hopefully brad blakeman as well. welcome. i want the read something that comes from senator marco rubio saying i generally don t support tariffs but mexico s lack of commitment when it comes to addressing the unsustainable migrant crisis at our border has left the administration no other choice. the president played tough. a game of chicken. sounds like they ve reached a deal. pete: you have to get the president for getting the deal with mexico. o rourke called it a crisis and
with mexico. the tariffs scheduled to be implemented by the u.s. on monday against mexico are indefinitely suspended. mexico has agreed to take strong measures to stem the tide of migration through mexico and to our southern border. so let s take a look at exactly what mexico has agreed to do. it will deploy 6,000 national guard troops to mexico s southern border monday. the entry point for many of these central american migrants. allow migrants awaiting conclusion of their u.s. asylum process to be sent to mexico and wait there and it will provide job opportunities to those migrants while they wait. mexico will also try to dismantle human smuggling and drug trafficking organizations. if that doesn t work, listen. in the event the measures do not have the expected results, they will take further action. in return president trump will not impose that 5% import
forced folks to rush to the southern border and then he tried to say now i ve solved this crisis. the devil is in the details and enforcement of said deals to see if mexico does send the 6,000 national guard to the 150 mile southern border. we aren t dealing with the real problem. in that northern triangle those three countries, the violence is extreme why people are picking up everything they have. family units are picking up everything they have rushing to the united states to seek our democracy and freedom. also doesn t deal with the fact there is a long backlog of folks seeking asylum that currently are waiting in this line and that are currently in detention and there was a report that came out this week that talked about how inspectors in these detention centers and the conditions are deplorable. we re in a situation where we know more people that we can handle are coming illegally.
if you release people 87% that asylum cases don t come back and show up for their court hearings. so how is this to be hand nld a better way? i think that s something we have to deal with. i m not going to sit here and not say we don t have to deal with it. i think the president had a huge victory today. good neighbors are ones that follow rules and regulations and prevent harm. the president s number one responsibility as president is to prevent harm, not respond to it. but for the president s action on threatening tariffs mexico would have continued to be complicit in the invasion that we re seeing on our southern border. shannon: i want to read something. we re getting a lot of reaction from capitol hill. chuck schumer who is the top democrat in the senate tweets this. this is an historic night. trump has announced he cut a deal to reduce or eliminate illegal immigration coming from
tariff on all mexican goods set to go in effect on monday. remember, many republicans in congress were against those tariffs and even threatened the try to block them if they took effect. so far tonight there has been nothing but praise from republicans since the deal was announced. congressman steve scalise says once again president trump has proven those bho doubted him wrong by getting mexico to step up their efforts. senator marco rubio says by exerting maximum pressure and demanding decisive action president trump has secured an important victory on behalf of the american people. democrats don t agree. 2020 contender o rourke tweeted the damage of trump s reckless trade policies and tariffs has been done. what we see is another example of him trying to be both the arsonist who created the problem in the first place and the firefighter who wants credit for addressing it. there has been a lot of talk that the threat of these tariffs could hurt the