Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has agreed to halt migration through Mexico, effectively closing our southern border, President-elect Donald Trump announced on Wednesday. Sheinbaum presented the conversation with Trump differently.
“I just had a great conversation with the new president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, who agreed to stop migration to the United States through Mexico, effectively closing our southern border,” he said. Donald Trump on his TRUTH Social website. He added that the conversation also concerned stopping the flow of drugs into Poland USA.
A little later, in a second tweet, the president-elect announced that “Mexico will stop people from entering through the (U.S.) southern border.”
“This will go a long way towards stopping the illegal invasion of the US. Thank you!” – he added.
The president of Mexico on her conversation with Trump
However, President Sheinbaum did not mention that such decisions would be made when reporting on her conversation with Trump. She described the conversation as “wonderful.”
“We discussed Mexico's strategy regarding the migration phenomenon. I said that (migrant) caravans do not reach our northern border because we deal with them inside Mexico,” Sheinbaum wrote on social media. She added that the conversation with Trump also concerned “tightening cooperation on security issues” and the Mexican campaign “to prevent the consumption of fentanyl.”
The conversation took place two days after Trump threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on all imported products. Canadaand also with Mexicoif the authorities of this country do not stop the “immigrant invasion” and fentanyl smuggling. Sheinbaum then responded that Mexico would impose its own retaliatory tariffs. She also emphasized that Mexican authorities have always shown readiness to fight the fentanyl “epidemic” in the US, and in recent months the number of migrants crossing the common border has decreased significantly.
Trump's immigration policy
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly announced that he would seal the borders and carry out the largest deportation in the history of the country. This could mean expelling some 11 million people who are in the United States illegally. – I will save every city in America that has been invaded and conquered. We will put these cruel and bloodthirsty criminals in jail or kick them out of our country as quickly as possible. – he said at one of the rallies.
Donald Trump promised to expand and strengthen the wall on the border with Mexico, which he did not complete during his first term. He announced the restoration of the entry ban for Muslims and the introduction of “ideological controls for all immigrants.”
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Trump says he will use an 18th-century law to “dismantle every immigrant criminal network on American soil.”
In 2022, the United States Department of Security estimated the number of illegally present migrants at approximately 11 million. The nonprofit American Immigration Council says the number could have risen to 13 million. The organization estimated that the cost of deporting these people could amount to as much as $968 billion, assuming that the entire process would take over 10 years.
Donald Trump declared that the goal of his administration would be to deport up to 20 million people.
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