{"id":74447,"date":"2019-04-07T17:38:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T22:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/?p=74447"},"modified":"2019-04-07T17:38:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T22:38:41","slug":"ap-fact-check-trumps-mexico-mirage-share-immigration-ap-fact-check-trumps-mexico-mirage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2019\/04\/07\/ap-fact-check-trumps-mexico-mirage-share-immigration-ap-fact-check-trumps-mexico-mirage\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Fact Check: Trump\u2019s Mexico Mirage share IMMIGRATION AP Fact Check: Trump\u2019s Mexico Mirage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA – Giving himself credit for tough diplomacy, President Donald Trump is describing a burst of activity by Mexican authorities to keep Central American migrants from getting to the U.S. border. That\u2019s an apparent mirage as Trump retreats from his latest threat to seal off the U.S. from Mexico. Trump was wrong when he said last week that Mexico was doing \u201cNOTHING\u201d about migrants coming north. Mexico markedly tightened migration controls during the Obama administration and detained more than 30,000 foreigners in the first three months of this year. And it\u2019s not evident now that Mexico has suddenly cracked down as a result of his threat, \u201capprehending everybody\u201d and making \u201cabsolutely terrific progress\u201d in just a matter of days, as Trump put it Friday. Mexico\u2019s apprehensions of foreigners have not surged.<\/p>\n

During his visit to the border in Southern California Friday, Trump denounced a landmark immigration case he blamed on \u201cJudge Flores, whoever you may be.\u201d The case in question was named for Jenny Flores, a migrant teenager from El Salvador in the 1980s, not a judge.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s recent statements on border matters and how they compare with the facts:<\/p>\n

Mexico<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump, on why he is pulling back on sealing the border imminently: <\/strong>\u201cBecause Mexico has been absolutely terrific for the last four days. They\u2019re apprehending everybody. Yesterday they apprehended 1,400 people. The day before was 1,000. And if they apprehend people at their southern border where they don\u2019t have to walk through, that\u2019s a big home run. We can handle it from there. It\u2019s really good. … Mexico, for the last four days, it\u2019s never happened like that in 35 years.\u201d \u2014remarks to reporters Friday.<\/p>\n

Trump: <\/strong>\u201cMexico has brought people back, they\u2019ve told people you can\u2019t come in. And that\u2019s happened really, they\u2019ve done, as I understand it, over 1,000 today, over 1,000 people yesterday, over 1,000 people the day before that. Before that they never did anything.\u201d \u2014 remarks to reporters Thursday.<\/p>\n

The facts:<\/strong> This depiction of Mexico going from strikeout to home run is inaccurate at both ends.<\/p>\n

Mexico reports that its interception and detention of migrants from the south are \u201cabout average\u201d in recent months. Over the first three days of April, it apprehended 1,259 foreigners \u2014 not 1,000 or more a day, as Trump claimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no very substantive change,\u201d Mexico\u2019s foreign secretary, Marcelo Ebrard, said this week. \u201cThere has not been a drastic change.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what (Trump) was referring to,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Mexico is requiring migrants to register with authorities, but that\u2019s been the case since President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador took office Dec. 1, Ebrard said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Mexico is doing as far as the review of the southern border \u2014 well, it\u2019s the same thing it has been doing since this government began.\u201d On Thursday, Mexico\u2019s ambassador to the U.S., Martha B\u00e1rcena, told The Associated Press her country is working to make its own border \u201cmore orderly\u201d but \u201cmigration will never be stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mexico took a substantial step in 2014, implementing a \u201cSouthern Border Plan\u201d that established checkpoints and raids to discourage migrants from riding trains or buses from Guatemala. Its detention of foreigners, almost all Central Americans, surged to 198,141 over the next year, from 127,149. Last year, it detained 138,612.<\/p>\n

The White House has refused to substantiate Trump\u2019s claim about Mexico\u2019s migrant apprehensions. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday credited Mexico with the \u201cwill\u201d to help stem migration, but he did not cite results. Even as Trump claimed a Mexican crackdown, Pompeo said the U.S. needs to see action from Mexico, telling Fox News that it\u2019s \u201cone thing to talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has abandoned his vow to shut the border imminently. He now says that if Mexico does not continue cooperating on migrants, he will try to put heavy duties on autos from Mexico and revive his border-closure threat if that doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

The Flores settlement<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump: <\/strong>\u201cThe Flores decision is a disaster, I have to tell you. Judge Flores, whoever you may be, that decision is a disaster for our country, a disaster.\u201d \u2014 remarks at a meeting with local officials in Southern California.<\/p>\n

The facts: <\/strong>There\u2019s no Judge Flores involved. Jenny Flores , a 15-year-old El Salvador native, was held in what her advocates said were substandard conditions, contending she was strip-searched in custody and housed with men. They launched a class-action lawsuit on behalf of migrant children in the country illegally. Her mother was a housekeeper in the U.S. who feared deportation if she picked up her daughter.<\/p>\n

The case worked its way to the Supreme Court, which sided with the government and against the girl\u2019s advocates. But the case gave rise to an agreement in 1997 setting conditions for the detention of migrant children and the codifying of those conditions in law a decade later. It generally bars the government from keeping children in immigration detention for more than 20 days and guides how they are to be treated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA – Giving himself credit for tough diplomacy, President Donald Trump is describing a burst of activity by Mexican authorities to keep Central American migrants from getting to the U.S. border. That\u2019s an apparent mirage as Trump retreats from his latest threat to seal off the U.S. from Mexico. Trump was wrong when he said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}