Trump claims Mexico’s new president promised to ‘stop migration’ in ‘excellent’ phone call
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Trump claims Mexico’s new president promised to ‘stop migration’ in ‘excellent’ phone call

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy President-elect Donald Trump claims to have had a “productive” conversation with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo a day after she published a scathing open letter to him about migration, fentanyl trafficking and tariffs. “Just had a wonderful conversation with the new President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. open image in gallery Trump visiting the US-Mexico border at Eagle Pass, Texas in February But Sheinbaum clapped back, explaining to Trump in her letter that half of the migrants arriving at the border do so through the CBP One program and called the drug crisis a “public health and consumption problem within your society.” “President Trump, migration and drug consumption in the United States cannot be addressed through threats or tariffs,” she wrote. open image in gallery Trump speaks during a campaign event in front of the US-Mexico border in August The call between the leaders was reminiscent of a conversation Trump had a week after taking office for the first time with then-Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in 2017 in which he told him to stop telling the press Mexico would not be paying for a wall along the US southern border.

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