Mexico is racing to implement its deal with the United States to curb migration, the country's foreign ministry said Friday before briefing skeptical lawmakers demanding details on the "secret agreement" President Donald Trump keeps flaunting.
Mexico got a 45-day reprieve from Trump's tariffs under last Friday's deal, and is keen to show Washington it is doing everything it can to stem what Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard called "one of the largest migrant flows in the world": Central Americans fleeing poverty and violence to seek asylum in the US.
But Ebrard and leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador also have to convince the Mexican people and Congress they did not get shafted in negotiations with the Trump administration.
Ebrard faced a likely grilling as he appeared before the Mexican legislature, where lawmakers want him to explain what exactly is in the mysterious document that Trump waved around in front of reporters this week, saying "That's the agreement that everybody says I don't have."
He accused the Lopez Obrador administration of "prostrating (Mexico) before the United States."
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