‘Extraordinary’: Trump provides a quick fiery victory on border cooperation in the middle of tariff
President Donald Trump He has achieved numerous victories in his efforts in his efforts to call other countries to help the US on border safety, because it seems that a combination of tariff threats and diplomatic reach is pushing allies to act.
On Monday, Canada and Mexico announced new measures to help the US at their borders, which in turn led to the USA paused the implementation of planned tariffs.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau He announced that his country would implement a $ 1.3 billion border plan and that he would appoint “Fentanil Car”. He also announced new helicopters, technology and improved coordination with US authorities.
Trump agrees to pause tariffs to Canada in exchange for a larger border implementation
President Donald Trump (L) is talking to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeauu during the plenary session of the NATO Grove Hotel in Watford, northeast of London, December 4, 2019. (Nicholas Kamm)
“We will list cartels as terrorists, secure 24/7 eyes at the border, launch a common strike by Canada-US to fight organized crime, fental and money laundering,” Trudeau wrote. “I also signed a new Directive on Intelligence on Organized Crime and Fentanil and we will support it with $ 200 million.”
This only came for a few hours before an additional 25% of tariffs had to be entry into force on Canadian goods coming to the United States and after a phone call between two leaders.
Hours before that call, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that Mexico distributes 10,000 soldiers to the US border in exchange for a break of similar tariffs that will affect Mexican goods that enters the United States
“These soldiers will be specially marked to stop the flow of fental and illegal migrants to our country,” Trump said about the truth of Social.
In his first term, Trump used tariffs to provide border agreements. In 2019, the Mexico of Mexico Stari policy in Mexico was expanded after a similar threat of tariffs.
A similar threat ensured collaboration from Colombia last week. President Gustavo Petro refused to accept military flights who accepted the Colombian nationals who replied from the US Trump with a threat of 25% of tariffs to all goods from Colombia, a ban on traveling to Colombian government officials and other steep financial sanctions. He said Tariffs would reach as much as 50% by next week and insisted that the migrants who were returned to “illegal criminals”.
Colombia gave up On the same day, and two days later they accepted the first flights of deportations from the USA
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with President El Salvador Nayib Bukele in his residence in Coatepeque Lake in El Salvador, on Monday, February 3, 2025. (AP)
However, not all the victories for the administration demanded the threat of tariffs. Trump announced on Saturday that Venezuela had accepted to accept the return of her nationals who were deported from the US, which he was not willing to do in a large extent.
The announcement came after Trump’s envoy for special mission Ric Grenell met with Venezuelan President Nicolás Madur in Caracas to discuss their country by accepting violent criminals deported from the United States.
El Salvador agrees to accept us deportise of any citizenship after the meeting with Rubio
On Tuesday, after a meeting with State Secretary Marc Rubio, President El Salvador Nayib Bukele announced a safe third country that would allow illegal immigrants to face the deportation in his country’s prison system.
“We offered the United States the opportunity to outsourcing part of its prison system,” Bukele wrote on Monday night at X. “We are ready only convicted criminals (including convicted US citizens) to our mega prison (Cecot) in exchange for compensation. Compensation. It would be relatively low for now, but significant for us, which would make our entire prison system sustainable. “
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Rubio said that Salvadrana president “agreed to the most interesting, extraordinary, extraordinary migration agreement anywhere in the world.”
“We can send them, and he will put them in his prisons,” Rubti told reporters, referring to illegal immigrants behind bars in US prisons. “And he was also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals who were currently in custody and serving their penalties in the United States, although US nationals or legal inhabitants.”
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Bukele also said that he would restore all members of the Salvadorane MS-13 gang in the US and illegally promised to accept and close the criminal illegal foreigners from any country, especially those related to the Venezuel’s Band of the Time de Aragua.
He ruined until Thursday at his five -terrome American tour, and is expected to stop Costa Rica, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.
Fox News’ Landon Mion, Anders Hagstr and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
