The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, spoke this Wednesday by phone with the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, on migration and fentanyl after his announcement to impose tariffs 25% 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 Mexican president explained on her social networks.
The call comes after Trump announced Monday that one of his first executive orders will be to impose tariffs on 25% on “all products” from Mexico and Canadauntil the invasion of illegal migrants and drugs, particularly fentanyl, is “stopped.”
In his text on the Truth Social network, the Republican politician justified commercial taxes by arguing that “at this moment a caravan 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 migrant caravans “no longer reach the border.”
In addition, the Mexican leader 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 chancellor, Juan Ramón de la Fuente, who “is already in contact” with Trump’s transition team to seek a meeting in which the Mexican Government presents the importance of preserving the Treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada (T-MEC).
The talk took place on 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 in the morning conference of the Government of the potential loss of 400,000 jobs in the United States and inflationn, such as a $3,000 increase in the price of each truck.
In addition, he recalled that total imports in the United States represent 12.7% of its gross domestic product (GDP), and that the trade exchange of the three North American countries totaled 1,776.5 trillion dollars from January to September 2024. the equivalent of 30% of the world economy.