The Latest: Mexican leader warns against 'coercive measures'
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MAY 30, 2019 08:24 PM, UPDATED 13 MINUTES AGO
WASHINGTON
The Latest on President Donald Trump's announcement on new tariffs for Mexican imports in response to heavy flow of migrants (all times local):
11:15 p.m.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says his foreign relations secretary will lead a delegation to seek a peaceful and negotiated solution to U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to impose stiff tariffs on goods from Mexico if the country doesn't do more to slow irregular migration.
López Obrador said late Thursday in a public letter addressed to Trump that "social problems are not solved with duties or coercive measures," and alluded to the United States' history as a nation of immigrants: "The Statue of Liberty is not an empty symbol."
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10:15 p.m.
The Republican head of a key Senate committee says that President Donald Trump's proposal to use new tariffs on Mexican goods to pressure Mexico to slow the flow of migrants to the border is a flawed strategy.
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