President Trump vowed Thursday that he would double all current US tariffs on Mexico if America’s southern neighbor allowed a caravan of more than 1,000 migrants to reach the border.
“Here we go again!” Trump began a lengthy post on Truth Social. “With the perceived loss by the Republicans in the Midterms – I WAS NOT ON THE BALLOT- the INVASION of our Country is taking place again. Huge CARAVANS are forming and beginning their illegal march through Mexico. Many of the people in these Caravans are those that various countries don’t want – “Send them to America,” they say – But they will not be accepted!
“MEXICO MUST STOP THEM, NOW, and if they do not do so, the Tariffs on Mexico will be IMMEDIATELY DOUBLED,” the president continued. “MEXICO, THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, THE VERY LIBERAL NEW GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, OUR GREAT BORDER PATROL, & ICE, HAVE BEEN SO INFORMED. There will be no leniency!”
The group set off Tuesday from the southern city of Tapachula near the Guatemala border, with some confirming that they were motivated by the prospect of looser US immigration policy following Democrats’ sweeping to power on Capitol Hill last week.
Cesar Sandoval, a 47-year-old Nicaraguan, told AFP that he hoped to have “another chance” to enter the US and said of newly elected Democrats: “We hope they remember that the ones who gave them the vote so they could make it to the Senate and Congress were the sons of Hispanics, the sons of Latinos.” --->READ MORE HERE
President Donald Trump says “huge” caravans of migrants are making their way through Mexico and moving toward the U.S. border, and urged the Mexican government to stop the groups.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum acknowledged the caravans Thursday, but claimed they had largely dispersed after intervention from Mexican authorities.
“Not a single migrant caravan has reached the north” since January 2025, Sheinbaum said at her daily news briefing.
Trump had threatened in a Truth Social post on Thursday to double the tariffs on Mexico if the country’s government did not act to slow the progress of the caravans. Reuters had reported that 1,500 migrants left Tapachula in southern Mexico earlier this week. Tapachula is located near the Mexico-Guatemala border and is about 1,150 miles from the U.S. border.
The report, citing a Chiapas state government source, said the caravan included many families with parents carrying their children or pushing them in strollers.
One of those traveling with the group, Cesar Sandoval, a 47-year-old Nicaraguan migrant who was deported out of the U.S., told Reuters that last week’s midterm victory by the Democrats represents “a light at the end of the tunnel” and “a way to get in.”
“We believe the Democrats will help us … with God’s help,” Sandoval told Reuters. --->READ MORE HERE
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