'Progress is being made, but not nearly enough!' US President Trump on negotiations between US and Mexico which are set to resume on Thursday
US President Donald Trump reacts as he speaks at the Wounded Warrior Project Soldier Ride event after the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, US, April 18, 2019.
Ahead of the high-stakes negotiations on Wednesday, the Trump administration laid out tough demands for Mexico City to crack down on hundreds of thousands of Central American migrants traversing the country to the US Mexican border in recent months.He said that more talks will be held on Thursday "with the understanding" that if no deal is reached, the tariffs he announced last week will go into effect Monday as planned.
Speaking from Ireland ahead of the talks, however, Trump said he believed Mexico is ready to "make a deal."The talks opened as the US Customs and Border Protection agency reported that more than 144,000 migrants were detained or blocked from crossing into the United States from Mexico in May, a 32 percent surge from April and nearly triple the level of a year ago.
Increasingly the migrants were arriving in large groups, including one of 1,036 individuals detained in El Paso, Texas on May 29.The Office of Refugee Resettlement, which takes care of the thousands of unaccompanied children that cross the border each month, said Wednesday that it has had to cut back secondary services it provides them, including legal aid, education, and recreation.Ebrard was hoping to convince the White House to hold off on the tariffs.
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