Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum warned the incoming U.S. president-elect Donald Trump about his threats to impose a tariff because of ongoing immigration and drug trafficking issues.
“A tariff will be met with another tariff in response and so forth until we place common companies at risk,” Claudia Sheinbaum said during her morning news conference.
Sheinbaum said that she would send Trump a letter containing the comments. She read it out loud. The letter was written in response to comments made by Trump, who claimed that he would impose high tariffs against Mexico for the border crisis, and even higher ones on China because they failed to stop producing fentanyl.
Sheinbaum said that Mexico has improved the process for moving asylum seekers and migrants safely through Mexico. As a result, the number of illegal encounters reported to U.S. Customs and Border Protection decreased.
She said that “half of the migrants” are using the CBP One application to request travel permits to cross Mexico’s border to reach the U.S..
Sheinbaum claimed that Mexico also made large seizures and closed down drug production laboratories under her supervision.
The new Mexican President used her letter as a way to lecture Trump, claiming that the issue could have been solved by now if the U.S. had spent just a fraction of what they have spent on wars to deal with the root causes of immigration.
