Trump warns Mexico to stop migrant caravans or face doubled tariffs
Briefing by News4U · First published
Today the White House posted on X a statement from President Donald Trump saying that huge caravans are forming and beginning their illegal march through Mexico, that they will not be accepted, and that Mexico must stop them now. Trump said Mexico, the new governor of Texas, the US Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been so informed. Al Jazeera reported that Trump wrote on Truth Social that Mexico must stop the migrants or face a doubling of tariffs, and that a Chiapas state government source estimated about 1,500 people had set out from Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border. [1] [2]
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- @whitehouse (X): Huge CARAVANS are forming and beginning their illegal march through Mexico.
@whitehouse (X) · · Excerpt
- Migrant caravan sets out from southern Mexico bound for US after midterms
Al Jazeera · · Full text