Trump Threatens to Double Tariffs on Mexico Over Migrants

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to immediately double tariffs on Mexico if its government does not stop migrants walking north toward the United States. The warning was issued in a post on Truth Social; the sources do not report that tariffs were increased or that Mexico agreed to act.

Trump wrote that Mexico must stop the migrants and said the tariffs would be doubled if it did not. He also said Mexican officials, Texas’ governor, the U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had been informed. He warned that the migrants would not be allowed to enter the United States.

Reuters reported that an estimated 1,500 people, mostly from Central America, set off Tuesday from Tapachula, in southern Mexico near the Guatemalan border, and were walking north. The report said the group hoped the Democrats’ victory in the U.S. midterm election could open paths to live and work in the United States. That estimate and account of the group’s intentions were reported by Reuters and were not independently detailed in the other reports.

Mexican officials had not responded to the tariff threat in the coverage. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was due to hold...