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Trump Threatens To Double Mexico Tariffs Over Migrant Caravans
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Trump threatened to immediately double tariffs on Mexico if migrants continue traveling toward US border. He announced via Truth Social; caravans heading to US and demanded Mexico stop them now.
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Tariffs as ultimatum
President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to immediately double tariffs on Mexico if the Mexican government does not stop migrant caravans heading toward the United States, and he posted the warning on Truth Social. Trump wrote, "MEXICO MUST STOP THEM, NOW, and if it does not, the tariffs on Mexico will be DOUBLED IMMEDIATELY," and he added that "There will be no clemency!" A migrant caravan of about 2,000 people left the Mexican city of Tapachula on Tuesday afternoon, and video captured by CNN en Español showed the group traveling together.
“MEXICO MUST STOP THEM, NOW, and if it does not, the tariffs on Mexico will be DOUBLED IMMEDIATELY.”
A caravan of approximately 1,500 migrants left Chiapas state in southern Mexico on Wednesday, bound for the northern border. DW reported that Trump linked the threat to what he claimed were "huge caravans" forming after a Republican defeat in recent legislative elections.
Caravans, routes, and numbers
A caravan of about 2,000 people left Tapachula on Tuesday afternoon, and it described migrants traveling together as a group. A caravan departed more than a week ago from Honduras, and it said the initial group set out for better opportunities on Tuesday the 3rd from the Gran Central Metropolitana of San Pedro Sula. Trump warned Mexico after reports that about 1,500 migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua left southern Mexico toward the United States last Tuesday.
The group set off Tuesday from Tapachula near the Guatemala border, and it said the caravan was an estimated 1,500 people. A Chiapas state government source told Reuters that around 1,500 people left Tapachula by Guatemala’s border on Tuesday, and it quoted Cesar Sandoval saying, "There might be a light at the end of the tunnel, a way for us to get in,".
Mexico denies, talks continue
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said in a morning press conference that "since President Trump took office there hasn’t been a caravan at the northern border," and she described two caravans in Mexico, including one in Arriaga, Chiapas.
Sheinbaum said the Arriaga, Chiapas caravan formed with about 500, 600 people and now had fewer than 100, and she said Mexico would inform people in the caravan that it is very difficult to pass to the United States.
U.S. News & World Report, citing Associated Press, reported Sheinbaum said "Not a single migrant caravan has reached the north" since January 2025, and it said she ruled out using force to break up caravans.
Mexico and the United States continued negotiations aimed at reducing or eliminating duties Washington imposed on several Mexican products last year.
Trump’s threat combined immigration priorities with the possibility of using tariffs as a pressure measure against the Mexican government.