Two days after US President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose new high tariffs on Canada and Mexico as part of efforts to crack down on illegal migration and drugs, he said he had spoken with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and that “she has agreed to stop migration through Mexico “.
In a post on his social network Trut Social last night, Trump said that in fact the “southern border of the USA will be closed”, and that he had a very productive conversation with the president of Mexico.
Mexican President Sheinbaum confirmed that she spoke with Trump and stated that they had an excellent conversation.
“We talked about Mexico’s strategy for migrant issues and I told him that the caravans are not reaching the northern border (with America) because Mexico is taking care of them,” Scheinbaum wrote on social media.
“We also discussed strengthening cooperation on security issues within our sovereignty and the campaign we are conducting to prevent the consumption of fentanyl,” she wrote.
As AP reports, it is not clear how this conversation will affect Trump’s plan to introduce new tariffs.
On Monday, Trump said he would impose 25 percent tariffs on all products entering the country from Canada and Mexico, as one of his first executive orders after taking office on January 20.
In publishing those plans on his Twitter network, Trump criticized the large influx of migrants coming to the US illegally, even though the number of illegal migrants detained at the US southern border with Mexico is at a four-year low, AP writes.
The number of illegal migrant arrivals across the Mexican border has fallen in part because the administration of outgoing President Joseph Biden has secured some increased cooperation in stemming migration from Mexico, the very thing Trump appears to be celebrating now.
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