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US President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to immediately double tariffs on Mexico unless Mexican authorities stop what he described as large migrant caravans heading toward the southern US border, Anadolu Agency reported.
“Mexico must stop them, now, and if they do not do so, the tariffs on Mexico will be immediately doubled,” Trump wrote on “Truth Social”. He added: “There will be no leniency!”
Trump linked the alleged increase in migration to Tuesday’s midterm elections, in which Democrats won majorities in both chambers of Congress and flipped key state governorships. He argued that an “invasion” of the US was resuming because of the “perceived loss by the Republicans.”
He alleged that “huge caravans” were organizing and beginning an “illegal march through Mexico”. Trump claimed that foreign countries were sending unwanted individuals toward the US and said they “will not be accepted.”
Trump said Mexican officials, the US Border Patrol and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agency responsible for immigration enforcement and removals, had all been informed of his warning.
He also directed his notice to Texas leaders, referring to the state’s incoming Democratic governor, Gina Hinojosa, who defeated incumbent Republican Governor Greg Abbott.
The Mexican government had not issued an immediate statement on Trump’s tariff threat or his claims about migrant movements.
