Trump praises Mexico’s work to support US border security

United States President Donald Trump and his nominee for ambassador to Mexico Ronald Johnson some praised the Mexican authorities connected Tuesday for ramping up the combat against the trafficking of amerciable drugs to the U.S. and the northward travel of migrants.

Trump met with a fig of his picks for ambassadorial posts astir the satellite successful Washington, D.C., connected Tuesday.

Ron Johnson, embajador de Estados Unidos en nuestro país, dijo sentirse alentado por las conversaciones con la presidenta @Claudiashein y le agradeció el apoyo en la frontera.

Donald Trump destacó que México ha intensificado mucho las medidas.

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Johnson — an service seasoned and erstwhile CIA authoritative who served arsenic ambassador to El Salvador during Trump’s archetypal word arsenic president — thanked the U.S. president “for the information to correspond you and the United States to the United Mexican States.”

“And I’m truly encouraged by immoderate of the conversations you’ve had with President [Claudia] Sheinbaum recently, and … the summation successful enactment that we’ve seen from her authorities on our border,” helium added.

“They person stepped it up a lot, Mexico and Canada, truthful spot however it works, right?” Trump responded.

The U.S. president spoke to Sheinbaum earlier this period and subsequently suspended 25% tariffs connected imports from Mexico that conscionable the requirements of the USMCA escaped commercialized pact.

Trump said helium took the determination “as an accommodation, and retired of respect for, President Sheinbaum.”

“Our narration has been a precise bully one, and we are moving hard, together, connected the Border, some successful presumption of stopping Illegal Aliens from entering the United States and, likewise, stopping Fentanyl,” helium wrote connected societal media connected March 6.

Trump imposed 25% tariffs connected each imports from Mexico and astir imports connected Canada connected March 4 owed to what the White House said was the 2 countries’ nonaccomplishment to adequately stem the travel of “lethal drugs” specified arsenic fentanyl into the U.S.

In her March 6 telephone with Trump, Sheinbaum said she highlighted that fentanyl seizures astatine the borderline — which tin beryllium arsenic utilized arsenic a proxy to estimation whether the magnitude of the opioid entering the United States is going up oregon down — declined 41.5% successful February compared to January.

Following her March 6 telephone with the U.S. president, Sheinbaum shared the statistic she showed Trump to person him that Mexico is stopping the travel of fentanyl crossed the border.  (Graciela López/Cuartoscuro)

Sheinbaum said that Trump wasn’t alert of that statistic, and attributed it to the summation successful fentanyl seizures successful Mexico. The fig of migrants detected by United States authorities illegally crossing the Mexico-U.S. borderline has besides fallen importantly since the caller U.S. authorities took bureau connected Jan. 20.

The Mexican authorities is presently waiting to spot whether the United States volition enforce further tariffs connected Mexican goods adjacent week. The Trump medication is planning to enforce astatine slightest immoderate reciprocal tariffs on imports from United States’ trading partners connected April 2.

As for Johnson, helium is waiting for ratification from the U.S. Senate successful bid to question to Mexico to commence his caller ambassadorial post.

At a Senate proceeding earlier this month, Johnson said that the U.S. subject could unilaterally instrumentality enactment against cause cartels connected Mexican ungraded if the lives of U.S. citizens were astatine risk.

Sheinbaum promptly rebuffed the declaration.

Sheinbaum: US sees that Mexico’s information strategy is working 

On Wednesday morning, a newsman asked Sheinbaum astir the remarks Johnson made connected Tuesday successful the beingness of President Trump.

In response, she outlined the 4 pillars of her government’s information strategy, namely addressing the basal causes of crime; strengthening the National Guard; improving quality and probe practices; and enhancing the national government’s coordination with different authorities.

“This strategy is what has allowed america to execute the results we presented yesterday,” she said, referring to a simplification successful the homicide complaint since she took office, the seizure of much than 134 tonnes of drugs successful the past six months and the apprehension of astir 16,000 radical for high-impact crimes specified arsenic murder.

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Sheinbaum highlighted that preliminary information shows that Mexico has recorded 19 less homicides per time this period compared to September 2024, the last period of the six-year presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

“Nineteen less homicides per day,” she reiterated.

“Of course, the United States sees this. What other are we doing successful this strategy? Avoiding that fentanyl crosses [into the United States] … for humanitarian reasons and owed to the collaboration and coordination we person with the United States,” Sheinbaum said.

“… I presume this is what the ambassador sees,” she said.

Mexico News Daily