The Sheinbaum administration is gathering data to argue against tariffs, emphasizing their potential to harm U.S. economic growth and inflation.

The rush of moves are meant to secure aid for migrants who are facing US President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to carry out “the largest deportation operation” in the nation’s history. The Mexican president’s efforts have taken off in the days and weeks since Trump threatened to impose economically debilitating tariffs on his southern neighbor — the flow of migrants being a bargaining chip,

President Claudia Sheinbaum expressed her disagreement to the “unilateral deportations” of Mexican nationals living in the U.S. and Trump's “Remain in Mexico” policy.