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Trump Threatens To Double Tariffs On Mexico Over Migrant Caravan

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Trump Threatens To Double Tariffs On Mexico Over Migrant Caravan

President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to double tariffs on Mexico if it does not stop more than a thousand migrants walking north toward the United States after last week's US election, warning that they would not be allowed to enter."Here we go again!" the Republican president wrote on social media. "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. MEXICO, THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, THE VERY LIBERAL NEW GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, OUR GREAT BORDER PATROL, & ICE, HAVE BEEN SO INFORMED.

There will be no leniency!"An estimated 1,500 people, mostly from Central America, set off on Tuesday from the southern city of Tapachula near the Guatemalan border.