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More active duty troops to head to US-Mexico border, brings total to 3,600

The Pentagon will deploy roughly 1,500 more active duty soldiers to the southern border to support President Donald Trump's expanding crackdown on immigration, a U.S. official said Friday. That would eventually bring the total to about 3,600 active duty troops at the border. The order has been approved, the official said, to send a logistics brigade from the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Liberty in North Carolina. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the deployment has not yet been publicly announced. The Pentagon has been scrambling to put in motion Trump's executive orders signed shortly after he took office on Jan. 20. The first group of 1,600 active duty troops has already deployed to the border, and close to 500 more soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division are expected to begin moving in the coming days. About 500 Marines also have been told to go to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where some of the detained migrants will be held. Several hundred Marines have already arri

Mexican border cities in limbo as tariff threats raise recession fears

As soon as the sun glints over miles of border fence dividing the United States and Mexico, the engines of cargo trucks packed with auto and computer parts roar to life along border bridges and bleary-eyed workers file into factories to assemble a multitude of products geared toward the US market. For more than half a century, this daily rhythm has helped fuel the heartbeat of a transnational machine that generated more than $800 billion in trade between the US and Mexico in 2024 alone. Over the past year, however, President Donald Trump's threatened 25% tariffs against Mexico and Canada have plunged manufacturing hubs all along the northern Mexican border into limbo, a state that persists despite a one-month reprieve to which Trump agreed on Monday. Tariffs would cripple Mexican border economies that are reliant on factories churning out products for the US auto parts, medical supplies, computer components, myriad electronics and likely thrust the country into a recession, econom

Mexico deploys first of 10K National Guard to US border after tariff threat

A line of Mexican National Guard and Army trucks rumbled along the border separating Ciudad Jurez and El Paso, Texas Wednesday, among the first of 10,000 officers Mexico has sent to its northern frontier following tariff threats by President Donald Trump. Masked and armed National Guard members picked through brush running along the border barrier on the outskirts of Ciudad Jurez, pulling out makeshift ladders and ropes tucked away in the trenches, and pulling them onto trucks. Patrols were also seen on other parts of the border near Tijuana. It comes after a turbulent week along the border after Trump announced he would delay imposing crippling tariffs on Mexico for at least a month. In exchange, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum promised she would send the country's National Guard to reinforce the border and crack down on fentanyl smuggling. Trump has declared an emergency on the border despite migration levels and fentanyl overdoses significantly dipping over the part year. The

Mexico's Prez Sheinbaum wins early praise for handling Trump on tariffs

Some politicians and analysts commended Sheinbaum's measured public tone and apparent ability to blunt Trump's charge after she reached an agreement with the US president to pause tariffs for a month

President Trump's Canada, Mexico border deals avert trade war for now

Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced their agreement Monday in separate social media posts, just hours before the two countries were due to begin placing tariff

Trump pauses tariffs on Mexico and Canada for 30 days, but not China

Both Canadian PM Trudeau and Mexican President Sheinbaum said they had agreed to bolster border enforcement efforts in response to Trump's demand to crack down on immigration and drug smuggling

Oil prices fall as US delays Mexico tariff by a month, easing concerns

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said U.S. and Mexico teams have started to work on Monday on security and business, adding that she proposed the pause in tariffs to Trump

Donald Trump imposes 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, 10% on China

Trump's tariffs deliver on a threat to punish the three countries for what he says is a failure to prevent the flow of undocumented migrants and illegal drugs

US businesses prepare for Donald Trump's tariffs to drive up expenses

From an ice cream parlour in California to a medical supply business in North Carolina to a T-shirt vendor outside Detroit, U.S. businesses are bracing to take a hit from the taxes President Donald Trump imposed Saturday on imports from Canada, Mexico and China America's three biggest trading partners. The levies 25 per cent on Canadian and Mexican and 10 per cent on Chinese goods will take effect Tuesday. Canadian energy, including oil, natural gas and electricity, will be taxed at a lower 10 per cent rate. Mexico's president immediately ordered retaliatory tariffs and Canada's prime minister said the country would put matching 25% tariffs on up to USD 155 billion in US imports. China did not immediately respond to Trump's action. The Budget Lab at Yale University estimates that Trump's tariffs would cost the average American household USD 1,000 to USD 1,200 in annual purchasing power. Gregory Daco, chief economist at the tax and consulting firm EY, calculates that the tariffs

Mexico pledges retaliatory tariffs against US while calling for cooperation

Sheinbaum said the country would also implement non-tariff measures, while calling for cooperation with the US on topics including security, migration and addressing the fentanyl public health crisis

Trump's tariffs on Canada, China, and Mexico likely to take effect today

Trump, the 47th US President and a Republican has been threatening to impose tariffs to ensure there is greater cooperation from the countries to stop illegal immigration into the US

From avocados to autos, US tariffs on Canada, Mexico could drive inflation

The 25 per cent tax that President Donald Trump plans to slap on imports from Canada and Mexico as soon as Saturday could drive up the price of everything from gasoline and pickup trucks, to Super Bowl party guacamole dip. The tariffs would also invite retaliation. Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, has already vowed to counterpunch by pulling American alcohol off store shelves in the Canadian province no idle threat; Canada is the world's No. 2 market for America's distilled spirits (behind the 27-nation European Union). Trump's tariffs threaten to blow up the trade agreement he himself negotiated with America's neighbours in his first term. His US-Mexico-Canada Agreement the fairest, most balanced, and beneficial trade agreement we have ever signed into law", Trump once declared -- was supposed to bring predictability to North American trade, giving businesses the confidence to make investments. But when it comes to the self-proclaimed Tariff Man", Trump and his passion for ...

Donald Trump barrels toward tariff showdown with Canada, Mexico, and China

Whatever Trump decides sets the stage for a separate review aimed at China, as well as Canada and Mexico, that could tee up even more tariffs as soon as April

Mexican Prez Sheinbaum writes to Google over Gulf of Mexico name change

Sheinbaum argued that according to the United Nations Convention on the law of the sea, US sovereign territory only extends up to 12 nautical miles

Google Maps to rename Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America after Trump order

The renaming follows an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump, who directed that several landmarks across the country be renamed

Mexico border states prepare shelters as Trump begins mass deportation

Mexico on Wednesday raised sprawling tents on the US border as it braced for US President Donald Trump to fulfil his pledge to carry out mass deportations. In an empty lot right against the border with El Paso, Texas, cranes lifted metal frames for tent shelters in Ciudad Jurez. Enrique Serrano, an official in Chihuahua state, where Ciudad Jurez is located, said the tents erected for Mexican deportees were just the initial phase of a potential larger operation, and something authorities would scale up if the number of migrants gathering on the border continued to mount. He suggested migrants from other countries expelled from the US would be relocated to Mexico City or southern regions of Mexico as they've done previously. Nogales, Mexico -- across from Nogales, Arizona -- announced that it would build shelters on soccer fields and in a gymnasium. The border cities of Matamoros and Piedras Negras have also launched similar efforts. At a border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, on Tuesd

Here's how Mexico is preparing for Trump's promises of mass deportations

Sheinbaum is following her predecessor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's lead in cooperating with the US to maintain smooth relations

Mexico, EU revamp trade deal before Trump takes office with tariff threats

Mexico and the European Union on Friday announced a revamped trade agreement that they said would substantially increase trade and investment, days before the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump, who has threatened to slap sweeping tariffs on Mexico and other trading partners. The new Global Trade Agreement between Mexico and the 27-nation bloc would reduce Mexican tariffs of agri-food imports from Europe, remove a number of barriers that would allow European companies to more easily invest in Mexico and boost Mexican exports of raw materials like fluorspar (used in electronics) as well as antimony, copper, zinc and lead. The updated deal, which first entered into force 25 years ago, also seeks to facilitate strategic cooperation on key geopolitical issues, the European Union said in a statement. We have entered a new era in our strategic partnership with Mexico today. Our upgraded agreement shows the EU and Mexico united for freer trade and an open global economy," said

Sheinbaum vows Mexico won't bow to US as Trump prepares to take office

Ties between both nations will stay strong and dialogue will prevail, Sheinbaum said during the speech in a Mexico City square

6.2 magnitude earthquake jolts southwestern Mexico, causing no damage

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck a region in southwestern Mexico early Sunday, according to the United States Geological Survey, causing no serious damage or casualties. It said the quake was centered 21 kilometers southeast of Aquila near the boundary of Colima and Michoacn states at a depth of 34 kilometers. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on social media platform X that the quake prompted emergency response teams to review their protocol. "There are no new developments," she wrote. Mexico's Social Security Institute said there were no reports of damage in the capital of Mexico City, some 600 kilometers east of the temblor's epicenter near the mountainous village of Coalcomn, Michoacn. Some people in Coalcomn and in Uruapan, the second largest city in Michoacn, posted surveillance footage on social media time-stamped at 2:32 a.m. local time that showed buildings sway and parked cars shake. Others reported that they ran into the streets to wait for the shaking to ...