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Update: Trump warns Mexico tariffs will be "IMMEDIATELY DOUBLED" if it doesn't stop the migrant caravans

Published 4:58 PM CT, Thursday, November 12, 2026 · Updated 5:16 PM CT
In the 5 PM CT update

President Trump wrote Thursday that "MEXICO MUST STOP THEM, NOW, and if they do not do so, the Tariffs on Mexico will be IMMEDIATELY DOUBLED," as a group of about 2,000 mostly Central American migrants that left Tapachula, roughly 1,150 miles from the U.S. border, heads north, the Washington Examiner reported. DHS and State Department officials have warned migrants they will be "apprehended, prosecuted, and removed," and the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador said the midterm results "do not represent changes to current immigration policies," the Examiner reported.

• Border security
• Migrant caravan
• Mexico
• Tariffs
• Donald Trump
• Tapachula
• DHS
• Illegal immigration
• El Salvador
• Central America
• United States