Mexico's President Sheinbaum Responds to Tariff Warning: No Caravan Has Reached the Northern Border Since Trump Took Office
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, responding to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff warning of the same day at her morning press conference in Mexico City on Thursday, November 12, said that no migrant caravan has reached Mexico's northern border since Trump took office. She made the remarks in answer to a reporter's question about Trump's post.
Sheinbaum said Mexico is currently dealing with two caravans: one in Arriaga, Chiapas, which began with about 500 to 600 people and is now down to fewer than 100, and another coming from Honduras. She said Mexico informs the migrants that entering the United States is very difficult, and offers information and humanitarian aid, as well as the options of returning safely to their countries of origin or, where conditions are met, staying in Mexico, with treatment based on respect for human rights.
Trump had posted on Truth Social at 7:04 a.m. Eastern Time that day warning that Mexico must immediately stop the migrant caravans moving through Mexico toward the southern U.S. border, or U.S. tariffs on Mexico will be immediately doubled. Sheinbaum's remarks were Mexico's first public response to the warning; in the published account of the press conference, she announced no countermeasures on tariffs. As of publication, the White House had not issued a formal announcement or executive order on the warning, and tariffs on Mexico had not actually been doubled.
GSM previously reported that the caravans are part of a northbound movement that began in Central America earlier this month: one set out from Honduras on Election Day and walked into Guatemala, and on November 10 it entered Mexico and reached Tapachula, with two groups estimated at about 3,000 people combined.
Related: Trump Warns Mexico to Stop Migrant Caravans Immediately or Face Doubled Tariffs
(Source: Claudia Sheinbaum)
Source: Claudia Sheinbaum
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：墨西哥总统克劳迪娅·辛鲍姆在晨间记者会上（Eneas De Troya 摄，CC BY 2.0，Wikimedia Commons）。Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum at a morning press conference (photo by Eneas De Troya, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons).
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