Even before taking office, Trump puts Mexico on spot -- stop the...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Not least the thousands of trapped immigrants eager to get in before Trump takes office.
48% : The historic mass migration of millions that followed -- and has now swept Trump into office again.
47% : That was when Trump, facing a brief but intense surge of family units at the southern border, threatened progressive trade tariffs on Mexican exports that would reach 28% if AMLO did not deploy military to shut down his own southern border with Guatemala and hem in immigrants behind 50 militarized roadblocks leading out of the southern provinces like Chiapas State.AMLO did as he was told to avoid economic ruination for his country.
40% : "I'm going to inform [Mexico's president] on day one or sooner that if they don't stop this onslaught of criminals and drugs coming into our country, I'm going to immediately impose a 25% tariff on everything they send into the United States of America," Trump declared at his Raleigh, N.C. rally on Monday.
38% : Just a day before the caravans launched and he won his election, Trump threatened massive, debilitating tariffs on Mexican exports if its Sheinbaum lets caravans make it to the border before he gets into office.
37% : But Trump isn't waiting.
29% : Then I'll make it 100."Recent history shows that this warning shot that Trump fired over the presidential palace has very real potential to impede any mad final mass dash on the southern border during the coming transition period -- and much more.

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