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Latin Times
Latin Times
Politics
Pedro Camacho

Mexican Business Leaders Call for Reforms to Address Migrant Employment as Trump's Mass Deportations Loom

The Paso del Norte International Bridge from Ciudad Juárez to El Paso on Feb. 26, 2021. Mexican unauthorized immigrants in Texas decreased from 73% of all unauthorized immigrants in 2016 to 55% in 2021, according to the Pew Research Center. (Credit: Texas Tribune/Justin Hamel)

The upcoming administration's foreign policy towards Latin America figures to hinge largely on the region's disposition to take back deportees, as mass deportations are poised to be the backbone of Trump's immigration policy. In fact, the President-elect has already revealed that he plans to use tariffs as a diplomatic tool to force other countries' hands.

"If they don't take them back, we won't do business with those countries, and we will tariff those countries very substantially," Trump told Time magazine in his lengthy interview in the issue in which he was named "Person of the Year."

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