AP: Trump's tariff threats create division between Canada and Mexico over security at borders

[Dennis Donovan]

AP - Trump’s tariff threats create division between Canada and Mexico over security at borders



Updated 2:22 PM EST, December 2, 2024

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Threats by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to impose tariffs have created a split between Canada and Mexico, after Canadian officials said problems with the two countries’ borders shouldn’t be compared.

On Monday, Mexico’s president rejected those comments, which were made following a meeting between Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“Mexico must be respected, especially by its trading partners,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said, after Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., Kirsten Hillman, told The Associated Press on Sunday that “the message that our border is so vastly different than the Mexican border was really understood.”

Sheinbaum said Canada had its own problems with fentanyl consumption and “could only wish they had the cultural riches Mexico has.”

Trump has threatened to impose 25% tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico unless they stem the flow of migrants and drugs.

Flows of migrants and seizures of drugs at the two countries’ border are vastly different.

U.S. customs agents seized 43 pounds of fentanyl at the Canadian border during the last fiscal year, compared with 21,100 pounds at the Mexican border. Mexico’s efforts to seize fentanyl before it reaches the U.S. have been lackluster.

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[keithbvadu2]

1. Donald, how about you convincing your own people to stop using and smuggling fentany.?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016348442

White Supremacist network busted with enough fentanyl to kill over a million people.
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[Dem4life1234]

2. Where does all those weapons in Mexico come from?

America

He's a real piece of trash.