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Trump threatens to double tariffs on Mexico if migrant caravans not stopped
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Donald Trump threatened to double tariffs on Mexico immediately if it failed to stop a migrant caravan travelling north towards the US border. The threat links trade pressure to immigration enforcement and came as Trump claimed midterm election results had encouraged renewed migration.
The group, estimated at about 1,500 people, mostly from Central America, set off on Tuesday from Tapachula, near Guatemala. The article also describes potential changes to immigration law enforcement after midterm elections, including a possible challenge to Texas’s SB4 law by its incoming Democratic attorney general and a pending Supreme Court decision on Iowa’s appeal over a similar law.
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- Trump threatened to double tariffs if Mexico did not stop the caravan.
- About 1,500 migrants set off from southern Mexico.
- Incoming Democratic attorneys general could affect state immigration laws.
How this story developed
- 2 minutes ago Donald Trump threatened to double tariffs on Mexico immediately if it failed to stop a migrant caravan travelling north towards the US border. The threat links trade pressure to immigration enforcement and came as Trump claimed midterm election results had encouraged renewed migration.
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