By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-26 19:34:37 | Updated at 2024-11-28 17:44:17
1 day ago
Migrant Caravans Not Reaching Border, Mexico President Says After Trump Threats
Newsweek ^ | November 26, 2024 | Jesus Mesa
Posted on 11/26/2024 11:09:25 AM PST by Red Badger
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum addressed U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's renewed threats of steep tariffs this week, asserting that migrant caravans are no longer reaching the U.S.-Mexico border.
Her remarks underscored growing tensions as Trump plans to tighten immigration policies and impose a 25 percent tariff on Mexican imports. Trump declared that the tariffs would remain in place "until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!"
"Caravans of migrants no longer reach the border," Sheinbaum said on Tuesday while presenting a letter she plans to send to Trump in the coming days. She also emphasized Mexico's efforts to curb the flow of drugs, including the synthetic opioid fentanyl, while noting that it remains "a public health and consumption problem within your country's society."
Newsweek reached out to Trump's transition team for comment on Tuesday.
As Trump prepares for his second inauguration, his harsh rhetoric on migration has resurfaced, coinciding with a caravan of approximately 1,500 migrants from Central and South America heading toward the U.S. border before his proposed policies take effect.
The urgency is partly fueled by Trump's promise to dismantle measures such as the CBP One app, which currently allows migrants to schedule asylum appointments remotely. However, Sheinbaum reminded Trump that Mexico is not to blame for the caravans reaching the border.
"Maybe President Trump doesn't know this, but of those arriving at the border—which is significantly fewer, 75 percent less than in December 2023—half them have a CBP One appointment. In other words, they have an appointment. So, they [the U.S.] are the ones inviting them to come to the United States," she said.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: tariff
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1 posted on 11/26/2024 11:09:25 AM PST by Red Badger
To: Red Badger
Wow, that didn’t take long
2 posted on 11/26/2024 11:11:39 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: Red Badger
Ask the bitch why Messico needs to be threatened to stop this crap. That country is a blight on the world. Should be one of the wealthiest nations on Earth. Instead it’s a failed narco shithole. Eff messico.
3 posted on 11/26/2024 11:12:15 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
To: Red Badger
Not president yet and already having huge impact!
4 posted on 11/26/2024 11:13:42 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
To: Red Badger
Isn’t it amazing how they can stop this if they want to.
5 posted on 11/26/2024 11:13:49 AM PST by cotton1706
To: Red Badger
The president of Mexico has a point but Mexico has long perpetrated enough evil on Americans that it needs to be punished hard to learn a lesson. We need to make Mexico to absolutely fear crossing the U.S.
To: Red Badger
7 posted on 11/26/2024 11:14:04 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: Red Badger
8 posted on 11/26/2024 11:15:48 AM PST by xp38
To: MtnClimber
9 posted on 11/26/2024 11:16:01 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: HYPOCRACY
Ask America why it can’t get many millions to stop taking drugs and making a super market for them.
Maybe if they knew that it was devastating their families too in the end, that would reach them.
And Mexico is a mess and we should have taken out their cartels a long time ago in any way needed.
But then the CIA would lose all the money it gets.
10 posted on 11/26/2024 11:16:50 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
To: Red Badger
Why doesn’t the news media ask Biden why he didn’t demand this four years ago.
Biden would defer the question to his Obama team handler, who might stumble and say something about fundamentally transforming America.
But ... what the Bidenites have spent four years saying was impossible can apparently be done with the flip of a switch in Mexico City. Our enemies: foreign and domestic.
11 posted on 11/26/2024 11:18:25 AM PST by sphinx
To: cotton1706
But did they stop it? or did the illegals simply scatter? Did they bus them to their former countries?
12 posted on 11/26/2024 11:18:59 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
To: Red Badger
Deterrent affect doesn’t even require a decent president-elect to be seated.
13 posted on 11/26/2024 11:20:24 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
To: Red Badger
More winning and Trump isn’t even in office yet.
14 posted on 11/26/2024 11:22:14 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” uitAmen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
To: Red Badger
Sheinbaum doesn’t seem to mind her own country being invaded from the south. I wonder what destruction these illegal aliens wreak in Mexico on their way to the U.S.?
15 posted on 11/26/2024 11:22:41 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
To: Red Badger
As of November 2024, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported a significant decrease in migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border compared to the previous year. In October 2024, there were approximately 100,000 encounters, marking a 75 percent reduction from the same period in 2023.
16 posted on 11/26/2024 11:29:03 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are not longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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