The Main Stream Media continues to describe the immigrant caravan as a last minute election trick by the Trump Administration, as if the president simply made it up. However, someone forgot to tell the Mexicans, who are dealing with the violence, unrest, and financial costs created by this unwanted invading column of Central Americans. [Crime menaces migrants on Mexico border as Tijuana declares crisis, by Lizbeth Diaz, Reuters, November 23, 2018]

However, good news arrived this weekend as it appears the Trump Administration has cut a deal that will force asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are being decided. This increases the odds that the asylum seekers can be kept out altogether. Journalists urging on the invasion are furious, but this represents both a domestic and international triumph for the Administration that it badly needed. 

The Trump administration has won the support of Mexico's incoming government for a plan to remake U.S. border policy by requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims move through U.S. courts, according to Mexican officials and senior members of president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador's transition team.

The agreement would break with long-standing asylum rules and place a formidable new barrier in the path of Central American migrants attempting to reach the United States and escape poverty and violence. By reaching the accord, the Trump administration has also overcome Mexico's historic reticence to deepen cooperation with the United States on an issue widely seen here as America's problem.

[Deal with Mexico would make asylum seekers wait outside U.S. border, by Joshua Partlow and Nick Miroff, Chicago Tribune, November 24, 2018]

Of course, given the courts in this country, one can't be surprised if some random federal judge finds a new Constitutional right from migrants to wait in this country as their cases move through the courts. "Human rights groups" are already making vague mutterings that migrants should be admitted immediately. [Trump Administration and Mexico may have just reached a new asylum deal, by Nathalie Baptiste, Mother Jones, November 24, 2018]

Ultimately, what is needed is sweeping reform of asylum rules generally to exclude any economic migrants, and that has to be preceded by Congressional legislation stripping American courts of jurisdiction over immigration issues.