Mexican leader responds to Trump claim she agreed to stop migration

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has appeared to contradict President-elect Donald Trump’s assertion that the 2 person struck a woody to halt migration to the US border.

After a telephone telephone connected Wednesday, Trump posted online: “She has agreed to halt Migration done Mexico, and into the United States, efficaciously closing our Southern Border.”

Sheinbaum responded rapidly that she had reiterated Mexico's presumption was not to adjacent borders, but to code migration portion respecting quality rights.

On Monday, Trump alarmed US trading partners arsenic helium vowed upon taking bureau successful January to slap an across-the-board tariff of 25% connected Mexico and Canada, and a 10% tariff connected China.

He said the import duties connected Mexico and Canada would lone beryllium removed erstwhile amerciable migration and cause trafficking to the US had stopped.

He said China would beryllium taxable to tariffs until it cracked down connected smuggling of the cause fentanyl.

Sheinbaum vowed earlier connected Wednesday to retaliate if the US triggered a commercialized war.

"If determination are US tariffs, Mexico would besides rise tariffs," she told a property conference.

She was joined by Mexican Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard, who urged much determination co-operation.

"It's a changeable successful the foot," Ebrard said of Trump's projected duties, which look to breach the USMCA commercialized woody that Trump himself struck successful 2018 during his archetypal presidency betwixt the US, Mexico and Canada.

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Following a telephone telephone with Trump, however, Sheinbaum initially posted connected X that the 2 had had “an fantabulous conversation”.

“We discussed Mexico's strategy connected the migration improvement and I shared that [migrant] caravans are not arriving astatine the bluish borderline due to the fact that they are being taken attraction of successful Mexico.”

Trump aboriginal took to his societal media platform, Truth Social, to connection a somewhat antithetic mentation of what had been agreed during their conversation.

“Mexico volition halt radical from going to our Southern Border, effectual immediately,” helium wrote.

Sheinbaum aboriginal went backmost connected X to accidental that she had “explained to him [Trump] the broad strategy that Mexico has followed to code the migration phenomenon, respecting quality rights”.

“We reiterate that Mexico's presumption is not to adjacent borders but to physique bridges betwixt governments and betwixt peoples,” she added.

Meanwhile, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held an exigency gathering connected Wednesday with 10 provincial premiers to sermon however to respond to Trump’s tariff threat.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said afterwards that the national authorities and the premiers had agreed to contiguous a agreed beforehand connected the issue.

There were signs of division, however, arsenic Alberta Premier Danielle Smith expressed interest astir whether Trudeau was the champion idiosyncratic to negociate with the incoming US president.

She told CBC: "I don't deliberation we should underestimate the idiosyncratic animus betwixt these 2 leaders.

“And if he's [Trudeau] not the close idiosyncratic to person astatine the dialog table, we request to marque definite that the close idiosyncratic is."

Mainland China authorities person yet to remark straight connected the 10% tariff promised by Trump.

But a Chinese embassy authoritative successful Washington has said no-one volition triumph a commercialized war.

Illegal migration became a defining contented successful the 2024 White House predetermination contention that culminated successful Trump’s resounding triumph this month. He campaigned connected a committedness to seal the US-Mexico border.

After an unprecedented influx of millions of undocumented immigrants became politically toxic for Democrats, outgoing US President Joe Biden introduced restrictions during this predetermination rhythm that sharply reduced amerciable crossings.

Under US diplomatic pressure, Mexico has been conducting its largest ever migrant crackdown, bussing and flying non-Mexican migrants to the country’s south, acold from the US border.

The signifier wears retired the exhausted migrants, leaving them without funds to proceed their journey.

Thousands person been truthful defeated by repeated experiences of this benignant of alleged interior deportation, that they person voluntarily requested to beryllium deported to their location nations.

When Trump takes bureau helium volition inherit a concern successful which less undocumented migrants are being apprehended astatine the US confederate borderline than astatine immoderate different clip implicit the past 4 years.