Trump Warns Mexico to Stop Migrant Caravans Immediately or Face Doubled Tariffs
President Donald Trump, in Washington on Thursday, November 12, warned in a post on his Truth Social platform 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. The post was published at 7:04 a.m. Eastern Time on November 12.
Trump wrote that, after the Republicans' perceived loss in the midterms, the invasion of the United States is taking place again, with huge caravans forming and beginning their illegal march through Mexico. He said many of the people in the caravans are people that various countries do not want, that they will not be accepted by the United States, and that there will be no leniency.
"MEXICO MUST STOP THEM, NOW, and if they do not do so, the Tariffs on Mexico will be IMMEDIATELY DOUBLED," Trump wrote. He said Mexico, the governor of Texas, what he called the very liberal new governor of Texas, the U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have all been informed.
The statement was made in a social media post and is a conditional warning: whether tariffs are doubled depends on whether Mexico stops the caravans. As of publication, the White House had not issued a formal tariff announcement or executive order, the Mexican government had not publicly responded, and tariffs on Mexico had not actually been doubled.
The caravans are part of a northbound movement that began in Central America earlier this month. GSM previously reported that a migrant caravan set out from Honduras on Election Day and walked into Guatemala, and that on November 10 it entered Mexico and reached Tapachula, with two groups estimated at about 3,000 people combined.
Related: Migrant Caravan That Set Out From Honduras on Election Day Walks 114 Kilometres Into Guatemala
(Source: Donald Trump)
Source: Donald Trump
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Photo: 图：白宫北草坪全景（Aaron Zhu 摄，CC BY-SA 3.0，Wikimedia Commons）。The White House from the North Lawn (photo by Aaron Zhu, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons).
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