Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday that Mexico won't respond to US President Donald Trump's threat of coercive tariffs with desperation, but instead will push for dialogue.
A day after Trump's threat to impose a 5 per cent tariff — that could increase incrementally to 25 per cent — on all Mexican imports, López Obrador seemed convinced that Trump just needed to be informed of all that Mexico has been doing to slow illegal migration, and he dispatched Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard to Washington Friday.
"We are carrying out our responsibility in immigration policy," López Obrador said at his daily morning news conference. He made no promises of new action to stem the flow of mostly Central American immigrants transiting Mexico to reach the US border.