Mexico reportedly talked Trump out of tariffs by offering 'aggressive' crackdown on migrants

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President Trump was persuaded to drop his plan to impose tariffs on goods from Mexico after Mexican negotiators promised to crack down on Central American migrants, officials from both governments told The Washington Post.

Mexico said it will arrest thousands of migrants every week, deploy the national guard to the border with Guatemala, and accept asylum seekers rejected at the U.S. border, the Post reports. Trump lashed out on Monday morning after it was reported that several of these conditions had been agreed to earlier, and tweeted that should Mexican lawmakers fail to approve parts of the deal, "tariffs will be reinstated!"

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.