The former president of the United States, Donald Trump, presumed that he managed to convince Mexico to place 28,000 elements of the armed forces on the border to block migratory passage, threatening the authorities of our country with import tariffs of 25 percent for each automobile exported to North America.
The statements were made on Saturday afternoon during a rally to support JD Vance’s candidacy for the country’s Senate. In reality, the big US media focused on criticism of the Joe Biden administration and the Mexican issue was ignored in practically all news spaces in the United States.
The president told his version of how he managed to “convince” the Mexican government to place the armed forces in migratory tasks.
On the way, he praised President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whom he considers a socialist.
Trump said he proposed to Mexican representatives to station 28,000 soldiers on the border, but his proposal was rejected, even with derision, for which he threatened to impose tariffs on Mexican imports, starting with the automotive industry.
He said he spoke with a representative from the highest level of Mexico, an official under the command of President López Obrador.
But then I looked at him and I said ‘you don’t think you’re going to do this’ do you?… they said ‘we’re not going to do any of that, why would we do it, we’re not going to give them 28 thousand soldiers for free’, and I told them , yes they will, because now it is Friday at one in the afternoon and the Monday at eight in the morning I’m going to give you a rate of 25 percent to all the cars that stole from our industry, they stole 32 percent of our industry, every car that comes into the United States will have a 25 percent tax or fee and any other product that they want to sell in the United States will have an approximate fee 25 percent, starting Monday at 8 a.m., and he looked at me and said, ‘sir it will be an honor to have 28 thousand soldiers on the borderit will be an honor to have the ‘remain in Mexico’ program…
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