Resistance is growing in Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's ruling coalition to a migration deal struck last week with U.S. President Donald Trump to avert punitive trade tariffs as the implications of the accord become clearer. Senior lawmakers in Lopez Obrador's leftist National
MEXICO CITY - Resistance is growing in Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's ruling coalition to a migration deal struck last week with U.S. President Donald Trump to avert punitive trade tariffs as the implications of the accord become clearer.
Trump has vowed to slap tariffs of at least 5% on all Mexican goods sold to the United States if Lopez Obrador's government does not meet his migration demands. The tariffs could rise to as high as 25 percent, he said. "They want to turn this country into a cage," he said in Congress on Wednesday. Later, he told Mexican radio that Trump was using"economic terror" to pressure Mexico and that the country should not give in.
Story continuesBut he has also defended the accord, declaring himself"very happy" with it"because we avoided an economic crisis."Roy Campos, head of polling firm Mitofsky, said the deal was"not well received." The pollster's daily barometer of support for Lopez Obrador has slipped by over a percentage point to 63.3% in the week since the agreement was announced.Arrests at the U.S.
As part of the deal, Mexico said it will send 6,000 members of a newly-created National Guard to the border with Guatemala. Reuters witnesses on the border on Friday could not detect any signs of the National Guard's deployment having begun."The National Guard is meant to be a solution for something else," lawmaker Munoz Ledo said this week."It's designed to deal with organised crime, not with migrants.
Asked on Mexican radio on Thursday if the National Guard plan would work, Interior Minister Olga Sanchez was sceptical.
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