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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is pushing again on Donald Trump’s declare she promised to successfully shut her nation’s northern border with the US after the incoming American chief alleged that she’d pledged to cease all migration by means of the nation.
On Wednesday, Trump took to his Reality Social platform to say that Sheinbaum had made such a promise throughout a telephone name earlier within the day. He wrote that she had “agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border.”
However Sheinbaum rapidly clapped again in a publish of her personal on X (previously Twitter), writing that whereas the pair had shared an “excellent conversation” she’d informed him that the migrant caravans Trump ceaselessly factors to as proof of chaos on the US-Mexico border should not reaching the US as a result of the migrants are “being taken car of” — receiving help and providers — in her personal nation.
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Trump made immigration a key a part of his 2024 marketing campaign (AFP through Getty Photos)
“We reiterate that Mexico’s position is not to close borders but to maintain bridges between governments and people,” she mentioned.
Trump appeared to have understood her feedback to imply that Sheinbaum had someway ordered a halt to all northward motion by anybody intending on migrating to the US, however in her posts to X she defined that she’d taken care to “explain” to her incoming American counterpart the “comprehensive strategy that Mexico has followed to address the migration phenomenon, respecting human rights.”
The president-elect has a protracted historical past of constructing broad pronouncements about Mexico’s administration of its aspect of the border the 2 nations share and has usually complained that America’s southern neighbor has not performed sufficient to cease folks from traversing the nation with the final word intention of claiming asylum in the US.
Now, months from taking the oath of workplace for a second time, he has threatened to impose a major import tax on all merchandise introduced in from Mexico and Canada until each governments do extra to cease what he has claimed to be an “invasion” of asylum seekers who cross into the US.
Final month, the US Customs and Border Safety company mentioned unauthorized border crossings fell 60 % between October 2023 and the identical time this 12 months. Alongside the US-Canada border — the longest largely-unguarded land border on the planet, the company has stepped enforcement efforts that minimize migrant encounters by half from June 2024 to September 2024.
