
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."