Mexico is sending a delegation to DC to talk Trump out of his tariff threat


No one likes President Trump's Mexico tariffs — especially not Mexico.
On Thursday night, Trump announced he'd impose tariffs on all imports from Mexico until it somehow stopped undocumented immigrants from coming through its border. Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador predicted Trump would reverse his decision, and on Friday he followed that up by promising to send a delegation to Washington, D.C. to talk things out.
The tariffs come in response to worsening conditions at the border, and will increase by five percent every month "until Mexico substantially stops the illegal inflow of aliens coming through its territory," a White House statement clarified. López Obrador countered by saying "we are carrying out our responsibility in immigration policy," and later pledged that he'd send his foreign minister to Washington, D.C. because "we think that all conflicts in bilateral relationships must be resolved with dialogue, with communication," per The New York Times.
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López Obrador did note that he had a legal backup plan if talks failed, but said he'd rather "convince, persuade [Trump] that free trade is convenient." Several GOP U.S. senators noted earlier in the day that the tariffs would likely worsen Trump's chances of passing a trade deal with Mexico and Canada — something he's been working on for months.
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