President Trump warned Mexico on Thursday that he will double tariffs on the country if it does not stop new migrant caravans heading for the U.S. border, Fox News reports.
"Huge CARAVANS are forming and beginning their illegal march through Mexico," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Many of the people in these Caravans are those that various countries don't want - 'Send them to America,' they say - But they will not be accepted!"
"MEXICO MUST STOP THEM, NOW, and if they do not do so, the Tariffs on Mexico will be IMMEDIATELY DOUBLED," he added, saying Mexico, Texas officials, Border Patrol and ICE had all been informed. "There will be no leniency!"
The caravan, an estimated 1,500 people mostly from Central America, set out Tuesday from Tapachula, near Mexico's border with Guatemala.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier backed a hard line on Wednesday night: "I don't think we can entertain amnesty in a conversation. We have to be a country focused on rule of law."
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