Well, the most natural thing would be for the new agreement with Mexico to work the same way as the existing agreement with Canada. According to [Just Security](https://www.justsecurity.org/64926/blocking-or-aiding-asylum-seekers-the-u-s-canada-safe-third-country-agreement-and-examples-from-europe/): > The U.S.-Canada agreement requires each country to return an asylum seeker to the other country for her/his claim to be adjudicated if the person was “physically present [in the other country] immediately prior to making a refugee status claim.” I.e. people who travel through Mexico to make an asylum claim in the US will be deported to Mexico to make their asylum claims there.