President-elect Donald Trump‘s declaration on Wednesday that Mexico , had agreed to” stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border” ignores Mexico‘s previously enacted policies that led to a 75 % decrease in “encounters” at the southern border.
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Sheinbaum stated in a statement posted on social media that she” shared that wagons are not arriving at the northern borders because they are being cared for in Mexico.”
Sheinbaum wrote in another post,” I explained to him the extensive technique that Mexico has adopted to deal with the movement phenomenon while respecting human rights.”
” Owing to this, workers and wagons are assisted before they reach the border”, she continued. We “reaffirm our commitment to building bridges between governments and peoples,”” but our goal is not to similar borders.”
Mexico had stopped three times as many migrants entering the country as it did a year ago, even before the back-and-forth on Wednesday night. President Joe Biden’s leadership put pressure on Mexico to support secure the southern border, prompting the country’s assault on migrants entering the country this year.
A group from the United States met with former Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and other officers in December 2023 under the leadership of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
The result is that, for decades now, Mexican authorities have rounded up workers, busing and flying them to the southwestern towns of Villahermosa and Tapachula, far from the U. S. borders.
Mexico also increased the number of security personnel crossing the U.S. borders, seriously patrolled key travel places, and increased the number of people being pulled off northern-bound transport trains. By January, apprehensions at the frontier had dropped by 50 % from the previous month.
Many of these workers are still stranded in Mexico and have alleged abuse from local law enforcement who has prevented them from entering the country.
Trump, who has n’t yet taken his oath as president, threatened to impose a 25 % tariff on imported Mexican goods unless it curbed the flow of migrant and drug immigrants into the United States.
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” This Tax will continue in effect until Fentanyl and all other Illegal Aliens cease this War of our Country”! Trump stated in a social media post on Monday. ” This long-standing issue can be resolved without any obstacles by Mexico and Canada.” We therefore demand that they use this strength, and that they must wait until they do so.
