One day after the two leaders spoke, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo denied U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s claim that Mexico would close its border with the United States.
“Everyone has their own way of communicating, but I can assure you, I give you the certainty that we would never—and we would be incapable of it—propose that we would close the border,” Sheinbaum said during a regular morning news conference on Nov. 28.
“It has never been our approach, and of course, we don’t agree with that.”
Trump had said the evening before that the two had a “productive conversation” after he reiterated earlier in the week his intentions to apply a 25 percent tariff on all exports entering the United States from Mexico and Canada. Trump suggested the tariffs would be retaliation for illegal immigration, crime, and drug trafficking across the northern and southern borders….