Trump storm looms over Mexico, border: Sheinbaum's strategy faces first test

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "We have to be ready for whatever Trump decides to do.
57% : So far, the approach appears to be working, for now. 'Sheinbaum is right: we will need a cool head to deal with Trump.' A trained physicist and climate scientist, Mexico's first president has provided methodical analyses of Trump's policies.
56% : " But Trump, a billionaire real estate mogul and former reality TV star is a fan of optics.
52% : In turn, Trump, 78, recently praised Sheinbaum and Mexico in his teleconferenced speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Arturo Rocha, a former senior migration advisor under just departed President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also applauded Sheinbaum but offered advice.
51% : "Sheinbaum is right: we will need a cool head to deal with Trump," political analyst Carlos Elizondo noted in his column in Reforma, a leading Mexican newspaper.
51% : The measures are already having an impact, with a 52% drop in apprehensions along the border since Trump took office, according to a spokesman for Customs and Border Protections.
45% : As a decision looms -- be it Feb. 1 or March 1 the potential dates Trump himself or top-ranking officials have set to impose 25% tariffs on the U.S. closest neighbors -- Sheinbaum and Canadian officials say they are ready to respond with their own.
45% : Migrants stranded as Trump ends asylum system These days, heartbreak prevails.
42% : "What matters is analyzing what he signs, more than what he says," Sheinbaum remarked the day after Trump was sworn in, reacting to a torrent of executive actions he quickly unleashed.
40% : " Mexico braces for tariffs as Trump takes action Deportation is just one of many challenges Trump's new administration poses for Mexico's popular first female president Claudia Sheinbaum, 62, who began her own six-year term just three months ago.
37% : "Trump is trying to use it as leverage for certain goals, some of which are valid, like the fentanyl crisis.
35% : Both the extent and duration of the tariffs Trump seems poised to announce remain unknown.
30% : Despite the noise, little more than 6,200 Mexicans have been deported since Trump took office, Mexican officials estimate.
24% : Hopes faded for migrants after the Biden administration's system to regulate asylum-seekers was dismantled as soon as Trump was sworn in.
20% : Trump used tariff threats after Colombian President Gustavo Petro recently refused to accept two U.S. military planes carrying deportees, who were shackled and handcuffed.

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