Acting DHS secretary tells Fox News' Bret Baier that immigration deal with Mexico is 'all new'

Kevin McAleenan.
(Image credit: Screenshot/Fox News)

President Trump was seemingly not pleased with a new report from The New York Times published on Saturday, which said that officials from both the U.S. and Mexico revealed that the actions agreed to in Friday's immigration deal between the two countries were already negotiated at earlier stages.

Trump, who nixed his threat of placing tariffs on goods from Mexico until their government agreed to help curb the influx of migrants coming into the U.S., tweeted on Sunday that the report was "false" and that, while such things were discussed in the past, it was not until the most recent set of negotiations that the two sides reached a conclusion.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.