TREE NEWS update: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on March 12 that no migrant caravan has reached the northern Mexico-US border since Donald Trump took office, responding to the US president’s tariff threats tied to immigration. The statement came after Trump again pressured Mexico over migration using tariffs.
Mexico’s Sheinbaum: No Migrant Caravans Have Reached US Border Since Trump Took Office
Sheinbaum's claim is notable less as a migration statistic than as a rhetorical move: it reframes the tariff pressure as leverage over a problem she says is already resolved, shifting the burden of proof back to Washington. This matters most for Mexican exporters and the broader tariff-exposed trade relationship, where immigration enforcement and trade policy remain explicitly linked. Whether that linkage persists—and whether the absence of caravans is accepted as sufficient to ease tariff threats—is the open question worth watching.
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