US President-elect Donald Trump's plan to impose high import tariffs on Mexican goods has sparked a discussion with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on migration policy at their shared border. Sheinbaum on Wednesday described the conversation as "excellent" on social media platform X,

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has appeared to contradict President-elect Donald Trump’s claim that the two have struck a deal to stop migration to the US border. After a phone call on Wednesday, Trump posted online: “She has agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border.”

US President-elect Donald Trump said that Mexico’s leader had agreed to “stop” migration in talks Wednesday, effectively closing the southern US border, in claims that went further than his counterpart’s account of a discussion about migration “strategy”.