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

Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard.

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published 31 May 2019

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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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.

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