Mexico's president said Monday that she's optimistic about the country's future relationship with President-elect Donald Trump.
But she's also pushed back against claims Trump has made that she's agreed to stem migration north.
“I’m sure we’re going to maintain a good relationship,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said during her regular morning press conference.
This comes after Trump threatened to put a 25% tariff on goods coming to the U.S. through Mexico and Canada if the countries didn’t stop the flow of migrants and fentanyl across their borders.
In response, Sheinbaum had suggested she might put in place retaliatory tariffs.
But Trump said on social media after their phone call last week that Sheinbaum agreed to stop migration through Mexico. Sheinbaum, however, said on her own social media page that Mexico’s position is “not to close borders, but to build bridges.”
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Mexico is working on breaking up migrant caravans setting out from the south of the country toward the U.S. border in the days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. -
Cold nighttime temperatures are expected to continue through the weekend, and northern Sonora towns could see more snow. -
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says the vast majority of migrants migrate to improve their lives and their families lives. She also seemed to walk back a previous statement that she hoped to come to agreement with President-elect Donald Trump to not take non-Mexican deportees. -
From the beginning of 2024 through November of this year, Sonora ranked high for calls to the police for partner violence, as well as domestic violence and sexual harassment. -
The closure marks a large international chain closing its doors in Culiacán due to violence from warring cartel factions.
