Mexico and Canada have started a flood of activities on their limits with the United States to capture migrants against migrants against migrants.
In the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez on the US border, the workers began to fill out a 300 -meter tunnel this week to smuggle migrants to Texas. The 1.8 meter high tunnel with electrical cabling and ventilation ran from Central Juárez next to a large highway under the Río Bravo, also known as Rio Grande. US agents said They discovered it at the beginning of this month.
Mexico has set up large, air-conditioned temporary accommodations for deportees, while President Claudia Sheinbaum said that some non-Mexicans belonged to the thousands of migrants who took back Mexico in Trump’s first week. She had previously proposed that her country could accept non-Mexican migrants as an offer for Trump.
Canada used newly rented Black Hawk Patrol helicopters, additional dogs and 60 drones on his border with the USA to react to Trump’s demands that the two countries restrict the entry of illegal migrants and fentanyl.
The Canadian Minister of Public Security, David McGuinty, said her efforts include “political public relations, official public relations and operational public relations”, including the discussions this week with Trump’s border zar Tom Homan.
Officials in Mexico city and Ottawa hurried to prove measures after Trump had already threatened to export their exports with 25 percent of February 1 if they did not shorten migration and drug trafficking.
If they were implemented, the endangered tariffs would send both economies to a recession that improves the chains of offers in industries from cars to electronics, and increased prices for US consumers, said analysts.
Trump short announced Columers in Colombia last week, after refusing to accept two military aircraft with deportants, raised them when Bogotá quickly withdrew.
He has also explained a national emergency on the border between the USA and Mexico, sent 1,500 additional troops and emitted by his predecessor Joe Biden, including an app for asylum applications.
In the measures, thousands of migrants were left behind, including Ardenis, a 26-year-old Venezoleer who had hoped to reunite with his brother in Texas, which had been stranded in Mexican border towns.
“Videos appeared by people who hugged their families. I was so excited to hug my family too, ”he told the FT.
“(Then) I was depressed. I even deleted my WhatsApp. I didn’t want to speak to anyone. ”
Trump put the US southern border at the center of all three of his presidential campaigns and last year scolded the illegal immigration of bidges.
Sheinbaum said on Monday that migration officers from both countries had held several virtual sessions and made agreements without offering further details.
In the first week of Trump Mexico withdrawn around 4,000 migrants, an increase of around 3,700 a week, which it brought back last year, according to government data.
Mexico had increased the immigration authority on behalf of the United States for more than a decade. Last year, Scheck’s and prison terms continued and concentrated on the bus from foreign migrants to the south.
Mexico is also under pressure on drug cartels that provide substances such as the fatal opioid fenanyl for the USA. The containment of this trade is difficult, with combined murders and disappear in the country near record highs.
Security Minister Omar García Haröuch said on Tuesday that more than 10,000 people have been confiscated since October due to high impact crimes such as murder and violent robbery and more than 90 tons of drugs.
The situation on Canada’s border with the USA is different from Mexico. According to us, the US authorities have illegally exceeded from Mexico since June last year Customs And border protection, but on the northern border with Canada, the number was around 15,000 per month.
Canada said that only about 1 percent of the entry of fentanyl to the USA will be transported across its limit. But that didn’t prevent Trump from threatening it alongside Mexico. Both Mexico and Canada have announced large drug busts in the past few months.
The Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly, who will travel to Washington DC on Wednesday to meet Marco Rubio, said this week that she would also talk to Mexico, Great Britain and EU colleagues.
“At the center of my conversations with my British colleagues and my European colleagues, the question will be how to react to tariffs,” she said on Monday.
In December, Canada announced an additional C $ 1.3 billion US $ 900 million to strengthen border security and the immigration system. It increased patrols and surveillance along the border, which extends almost 9,000 km across land and water.
Xavi Delgado from the Canada Institute in the Wilson Center in Washington DC said: “This was a wake -up call for Ottawa. Trump said frustrated with Canada that they took the United States for granted. “
Mexico and Canada have deployed legislators and others in the district of the President and argues that tariffs would be a “loss -free” station for all three countries.
Despite Trump’s approach, some migrants in Mexico remain hopeful. “I remember to stay here quietly and wait,” said Gabriel, a 23-year-old from Venezuela, on the border. “I have the feeling that we can cross legally at any time or that something good will happen.”
