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The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com
Sunday, November 25, 2018 5A
Mexico government: No deal to host US asylum-seekers
BY AMY GUTHRIE
Associated Press
Mexico’s incoming government
denied a report Saturday that it
plans to allow asylum-seekers to
wait in the country while their
claims move through U.S. immi
gration courts, one of several
options the Trump administration
has been pursuing in negotiations
for months.
“There is no agreement of any
sort between the incoming Mexi
can government and the U.S. gov
ernment,” future Interior Minister
Olga Sanchez said in a statement.
Hours earlier, The Washington
Post quoted her as saying that the
incoming administration
of Andres Manuel Lopez
Obrador had agreed to
allow migrants to stay in
Mexico as a “short-term
solution” while the U.S.
considered their applica
tions for asylum. Lopez
Obrador will take office
on Dec. 1.
The statement shared
with The Associated Press said
the future government’s principal
concern related to the migrants is
their well-being while in Mexico.
Sanchez said the government does
not plan for Mexico to become a
“third safe country.”
The Washington Post reported
Saturday that the admin
istration of U.S. President
Donald Trump has won
support from the Mexican
president-elect’s team for
a plan dubbed “Remain in
Mexico.”
The newspaper also
quoted Sanchez as saying:
“For now, we have agreed
to this policy of Remain in
Mexico.”
Sanchez did not explain in the
statement why The Washington
Post had quoted her as saying
there had been agreement.
The White House did not imme
diately respond to requests for
comment.
U.S. officials have said for
months that they were working
with Mexico to find solutions for
what they have called a border
crisis.
Approximately 5,000 Central
American migrants have arrived
in recent days to Tijuana, just south
of California, after making their
way through Mexico via caravan.
Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel
Gastelum on Friday declared a
humanitarian crisis in his bor
der city, which is struggling to
accommodate the influx. Most of
the migrants are camped inside
a sports complex, where they
face long wait times for food and
bathrooms.
Julieta Vences, a congress-
woman with Lopez Obrador’s
Morena party who is also president
of Mexico’s congressional migrant
affairs commission, told the AP
that incoming Foreign Minister
Marcelo Ebrard has been discuss
ing with U.S. officials how to han
dle a deluge of asylum claims at
the border.
“They’re going to have to open
the borders (for the migrants) to
put in the request,” Vences said.
“They will also give us dates, on
what terms they will receive the
(asylum) requests and in the case
that they are not beneficiaries of
this status, they will have to return
here,” Vences said.
Obrador
PARKING
■ Continued from 1A
But she was hopeful that busi
ness would pick up when more
parking becomes available
Monday.
“I think a flood of customers
are finally going to be able to have
parking. ... It’s been hard to find
parking, but now that it’s going
to be open, we’re really excited.
We’ve been waiting,” Demeter
said.
Downtown businesses collabo
rated to weather the construction
impacts. Carroll Daniel Construc
tion, the Gainesville-based contrac
tor that managed the deck project
and is building its own headquar
ters downtown, picked up employ
ees’ bills for lunch on the square.
Downtown Drafts, a craft beer bar
and growler shop, gave custom
ers a discount if they brought in a
receipt from the Collegiate Grill.
The Collegiate was especially hard
hit by the construction due to its
location on Main Street.
“I think all the businesses just got
through it together and it worked
out,” Aimee Hoecker, co-owner of
Downtown Drafts, said.
Hoecker said her business had
not seen a significant drop in cus
tomers during the deck closure,
which she attributed to the city’s
efforts to find parking alternatives
and communicate with the public
about the issue.
“We’re especially super excited
that it’s going to be open just in
time for the holiday season, which
I think will be awesome for every
body,” she said. “We appreciate
the city putting the extra effort
out there and we appreciate our
customers that helped all the busi-
‘We appreciate
everybody’s
patience during
the construction. I
know it was a long
and sometimes
painful process, but
everyone pitched in
and worked together.
It was nice to see the
downtown businesses
and the community
come together during
the project to make it
as easy as possible.’
Nikki Perry, City spokeswoman
nesses through it.”
City spokeswoman Nikki Perry
said the project had gone smoothly
and stuck to budget and schedule.
Officials are grateful that busi
nesses worked together and that
the community still supported
downtown businesses, she said.
“We appreciate everybody’s
patience during the construction. I
know it was a long and sometimes
painful process, but everyone
pitched in and worked together,”
Perry said. “It was nice to see
the downtown businesses and the
community come together during
the project to make it as easy as
possible.”
Above: C&C Fence
Company’s Chris
Browning, right, and
Jonathan Van Dalen
remove fencing along
Main Street Wednesday,
Nov. 21, in preparation
for the opening of Main
Street on Monday. Left:
Main Street and the
first three floors of the
downtown Gainesville
parking deck are
reopening, but the top
three floors of the deck
will remain closed until
January.
Photos by SCOn ROGERS
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