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President Donald Trump is using his tariff leverage to urge Mexico to stop a migrant caravan from reaching the U.S. southern border.
“Huge CARAVANS are forming and beginning their illegal march through Mexico,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social article Thursday morning. “Many of the people in these caravans are those that various countries don’t want – ‘Send them to America,’ they say – but they won’t be accepted!
“MEXICO NEEDS TO STOP THEM NOW, and if they don’t, tariffs on Mexico will be DOUBLED IMMEDIATELY,” he added. “MEXICO, THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, THE NEW VERY LIBERAL GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, OUR GREAT BORDER PATROL AND ICE, HAVE BEEN INFORMED. There will be no leniency!”
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President Trump threatens action against Mexico as a migrant caravan heads toward the U.S. southern border. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, file)
Trump’s message began by suggesting that the midterm elections had emboldened mass migration efforts that he had had to end since his first administration.
“Here we go again!” Trump’s message began. “With the Republicans’ perceived loss in the midterms – I WAS NOT ON THE BALLOT – the INVASION of our country is happening again.”
The group of migrants, estimated at 1,500 people, mostly from Central America, set out on Tuesday from the southern town of Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala.
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Gains by Democratic attorneys general in the midterms could help ease some of Trump’s immigration enforcement measures that he said may have seemed “too strict” to voters earlier this month.
Democratic Texas Attorney General-elect Nathan Johnson may abandon the state’s defense of SB4, a Republican-backed Texas law that allows state authorities to arrest and prosecute people suspected of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. In April, the New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the law to take effect as challenges proceed.
Current Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who chose not to seek re-election following an unsuccessful Senate bid, remains in office until Johnson is sworn in on January 1, 2027.
With Texas’ loss, Florida remains the largest red state on the political map, and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has spoken out forcefully against Democratic efforts to ease immigration enforcement.
“I don’t think we can consider amnesty in a conversation,” he said Wednesday night on the “Will Cain Show.” “We must be a country focused on the rule of law. In Florida, we have deported a record number of tens of thousands of criminal illegal aliens, child predators, murderers, people who have committed violent crimes, and we have reached record crime levels. We are safer than ever after closing the border.”
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In another filing, the Supreme Court is considering whether to accept Iowa’s appeal of a ruling blocking a law that would allow state officials to arrest and prosecute people in the United States illegally. Democratic state AG-elect Nate Willems could refuse to defend the law if the Supreme Court accepts the case.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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