Trump Says Secret Deal With Mexico Takes Effect When He Wants
- President holds up paper that he says is part of agreement
- White House official Mulvaney says agreement relates to asylum
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President Donald Trump told reporters that he reached a secret pact with Mexico that will take effect when he wants it to -- despite the country’s insistence that there are no secret components of an immigration deal struck last week.
“That’s the agreement that everybody says I don’t have,” Trump said at the White House on Tuesday, holding one page of what he described as a lengthy deal but refusing to explain the details. “If they bring the numbers way down, we won’t have to use it. OK?”