<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lindsey-graham-warns-mexico-stop-the-caravan-or-trade-deal-is-at-risk" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; color: purple;" class="">https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lindsey-graham-warns-mexico-stop-the-caravan-or-trade-deal-is-at-risk</a><br class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class="">Lindsey Graham warns Mexico: Stop the caravan or trade deal is at risk<o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">By: Diana Stancy Correll</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">10/30/2018<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., warned Mexico that their <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-heralds-wonderful-trade-deal-with-canada-mexico" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: blue;" class="">trade agreement with the U.S. and Canada</span></a> may be in jeopardy if the country doesn’t help Trump stymie a <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dhs-chief-kirstjen-nielsen-to-migrant-caravan-do-not-come-you-will-not-be-allowed-in" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: blue;" class="">caravan of migrants from Central America</span></a> who are headed to the U.S.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">“To our friends in Mexico, if you don’t help Trump stop this caravan, you’re going to pay a price in Congress when it comes to this trade deal,” Graham told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Monday evening.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Congress has yet to vote on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which would replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. The new deal offers adjustments such as requiring 75 percent of a car's components to be made in North America in order to be exempt from tariffs.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3" class="">Congress has 60 days to approve the deal after it has been officially signed </font><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">[</i><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">AS note: this is incorrect.]</i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;" class="">, which is expected to occur later next month.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;" class=""> Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, has indicated that Congress may not address the legislation until 2019.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The Trump administration announced Monday that <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-sending-5-200-active-duty-troops-to-the-border" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: blue;" class="">5,200 troops will be sent to the U.S.-Mexican border</span></a> before the caravan of thousands of migrants arrives. The troops are expected to assist with engineering projects, and constructing temporary barriers and fencing, among other tasks, but not U.S. immigration law enforcement. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Temporary work permits, medical care, and other benefits have been extended to migrants if they stay in two Mexican states, Chiapas and Oaxaca, and register with authorities, but the offer has been dismissed by most people in the caravan.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">##^</div></body></html>