‘Stop them or tariffs will be doubled’: Trump warns Mexico as 1,500 migrants head towards US
US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to double tariffs on Mexico if the country failed to stop a group of more than 1,000 migrants heading towards the United States.“Huge CARAVANS are forming and beginning their illegal march through Mexico. Many of the people in these Caravans are those that various countries don’t want – ‘Send them to America,’ they say. But they will not be accepted!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.He claimed that the migrants were attempting to reach Texas, one of the US states sharing a border with Mexico.“MEXICO MUST STOP THEM, NOW, and if they do not do so, the Tariffs on Mexico will be IMMEDIATELY DOUBLED. MEXICO, THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, THE VERY LIBERAL NEW GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, OUR GREAT BORDER PATROL, & ICE, HAVE BEEN SO INFORMED. There will be no leniency!” he added.
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Texas recently elected Democrat Gina Hinojosa as its new governor. Hinojosa is set to succeed the outgoing Republican Governor Greg Abbott. Trump has repeatedly accused the Democratic administration of his predecessor, Joe Biden, of allowing “open borders” and enabling migrants to “pour across our borders from all over the world”.The migrant group, comprising an estimated 1,500 migrants, mostly from Central America, set out on Tuesday from the southern Mexican city of Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border, Reuters reported.Meanwhile, Trump reiterated in the same post that the Republicans lost the midterms because he was not on the ballot.“Here we go again! With the perceived loss by the Republicans in the Midterms – I WAS NOT ON THE BALLOT – the INVASION of our Country is taking place again,” he wrote.The Republicans’ defeat in the Texas gubernatorial race was part of the midterm elections held on November 3.
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