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Returns Asylum-Seekers: Friday Night and State Department

returns asylum-seekers: A joint declaration released by the State Department said the U.S. will immediately expand a program that returns asylum-seekers, while their claims are under review, to Mexico after they have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, according to CTV. Mexico will offer jobs, healthcare and education to those people, according to the agreement. But the deal he announced Friday night, after returning from a trip to Europe, falls short of some of the dramatic overhauls pushed for by his administration. Mexico has agreed, it said, to unprecedented steps to increase enforcement to curb irregular migration, including the deployment of the Mexican National Guard throughout the country, especially on its southern border with Guatemala. He called for a gathering Saturday to celebrate in Tijuana. Trump put the number of troops at 6,000, and said in a tweet Saturday, Mexico will try very hard, and if they do that, this will be a very successful agreement for both the United States and Mexico! Mexico's president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, said on Twitter that Thanks to the support of all Mexicans, the imposition of tariffs on Mexican products exported to the USA has been avoided. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.