In the trade and border dispute between the US and Mexico, the top talks ended yesterday without agreement. This was announced by US President Donald Trump on Twitter. „Progress has been made, but not nearly enough,“ wrote Trump, who is in Ireland and did not personally attend the talks, on Twitter.
The talks should be continued today. „We will try to get closer,“ said Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard.
If there is no agreement, from Monday to five percent special tariffs on all imports from Mexico, Trump wrote. The US President uses the customs threat as a means of pressure. He wants to persuade Mexico to do more for border security in order to stem the flow of immigrants to the US.
Military operation against migrants in Mexico
Shortly before a meeting of high-ranking government officials in Washington, Mexican security forces in the south of the country launched a campaign against people from Central America. Soldiers, policemen and immigration officers yesterday sealed off roads in Chiapas, according to TV channel Milenio TV.
They wanted to stop a group of around 1,000 immigrants who had recently crossed the border between Guatemala and Mexico.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people from Central America flee poverty and violence in their home countries and make their way via Mexico to the United States. In May, 144,000 people were stopped on the southern border of the United States without the necessary entry papers, 32 percent more than in the previous month.
