President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke by phone this Wednesday with the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, about migration and fentanyl after his threat to impose a 25% tariff on all Mexican products.
“I had a great conversation with President Donald Trump. We addressed the Mexican strategy on the phenomenon of migration and I shared that caravans are not arriving at the northern border because they are attended to in Mexico,” the president explained on her social networks.
The call comes after Trump announced Monday that one of his first executive orders will be to impose 25% tariffs on “all products” from Mexico and Canada, until the invasion of illegal migrants and drugs is “stopped.” particularly fentanyl.
In his text on the Truth Social network, the Republican politician justified commercial taxes by arguing that “at this moment a caravan coming from Mexico, made up of thousands of people, seems unstoppable” so there is now “an open border.”
But in the conversation this Wednesday and in a letter sent on Tuesday, Sheinbaum has insisted that the migrant caravans “no longer reach the border.”
In addition, Sheinbaum highlighted the cooperation that exists to combat drug trafficking.
“We also talked about strengthening collaboration on security issues within the framework of our sovereignty and the campaign we are carrying out in the country to prevent the consumption of fentanyl,” he concluded in his brief message.
Sheinbaum was accompanied on the call by the Foreign Minister, Juan Ramón de la Fuente, who “is already in contact” with the Trump transition team to seek a meeting in which the Mexican Government would present the importance of preserving the Treaty between Mexico, United States and Canada (USMCA).
The talk happened the same day that the president and the private sector chambers presented a new business council as a united front to combat Trump’s tariffs.
The Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard, warned at the Government’s morning conference of the potential loss of 400,000 jobs in the United States and inflation, such as an increase of $3,000 in the price of each truck.
Read: Trump’s tariff could affect 400,000 jobs in the US, Ebrard warns
In addition, he recalled that total imports in the United States represent 12.7% of its GDP, and that the trade exchange of the three North American countries totaled 1,776.5 billion dollars from January to September 2024, equivalent to 30% of the world economy. .
With information from EFE
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