Under threat of crippling US tariffs, Mexico says it has reduced the flow of migrants arriving at its northern border by 56 percent in three months
An agent of the National Migration Institute checks documents of African migrants during an operation in Tapachula, Mexico, September 5, 2019.
At the end of May, US President Donald Trump threatened to put tariffs on all Mexican exports to the United States if Mexico did not significantly curb a recent surge in illegal immigration from Central America into the United States. "I don't expect there to be a tariff threat on Tuesday," Ebrard said, pointing to the reduction in migrant flows.
"I want to thank Mexico, the Mexican government, their great President of Mexico, for helping us," he told reporters on Wednesday. "They’re helping us in a very big way. Far bigger than anybody thought even possible."
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