Migrants, currency exchange | The agreement reached …

The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, celebrated yesterday in Tijuana the migration agreement with the United States. In the pact signed Friday night, Mexico is committed to changing its policy towards migrants, which will result in increased border control and the deployment of six thousand National Guard soldiers. in the southern part of the country. . The president, however, has been criticized for agreeing with President Donald Trump to militarize the border. This is the case of Luis Rey Villagrán, an activist who defends the rights of migrants, who said: "In this agreement, migrants are used as money, they criminalize the phenomenon of migration, they will militarize the border and stop women and girls. "

On May 30, Trump announced that it would impose a 5% rate on products imported from Mexico if the López Obrador government did not prevent the immigrants from Central America crossing Mexican territory to join the United States. The rate, which in the absence of agreement, would come into force tomorrow, would increase to 25% in October. The agreement has three components: the first aims to deploy six thousand members of the National Guard in the eleven municipalities of the southern border. "This deployment will begin on Monday and will be part of a national program already underway," said Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard. The second point includes the extension of the program called "Staying in Mexico" at the entire border. Thus, migrants who go to the United States to seek asylum will be returned "without delay" on the Mexican territory where they will wait for the resolution of their cases by the American authorities. And the third point establishes the will of both countries to continue the dialogue in case the measures adopted do not give results. In this scenario, the parties would have 90 days to speak.