Associated Press-Trumps tariff threats create division between Canada and Mexico over security at borders
December 3, 2024 3 min 534 words
这篇报道主要内容是，特朗普的关税威胁在加拿大和墨西哥之间造成了分歧。在特朗普政府对加拿大和墨西哥产品加征关税后，两国在边境安全问题上出现了分歧。加拿大表示，将加强边境安全，并可能对美国产品采取反制措施。而墨西哥则表示，将不会在边境安全问题上做出让步，并警告可能会对加拿大采取报复行动。 评论：这篇报道有明显的偏见，它试图把加拿大和墨西哥之间正常的贸易分歧夸大为“安全”问题，并把特朗普政府描绘成造成分歧的一方。事实上，加拿大和墨西哥在贸易问题上存在分歧是正常的，两国在贸易政策上存在不同的利益考虑，有时出现矛盾是正常的。报道没有提到特朗普政府征收关税的理由，比如保护美国农民和制造商的利益，而是直接把特朗普政府描绘成造成分歧的一方，这是不公平的。此外，报道也没有提到墨西哥在边境安全问题上不合作的事实，比如非法移民和毒品走私等问题，这显然是选择性报道。
ARCHIVO - La presidenta mexicana, Claudia Sheinbaum, en conferencia de prensa en el Palacio Nacional en Ciudad de México, el 2 de octubre de 2024, la mañana después de su toma de protesta. (AP Foto/Fernando Llano, Archivo)
2024-12-02T19:22:42Z
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Threats by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to impose tariffs have created a split between Canada and Mexico, after Canadian officials said problems with the two countries’ borders shouldn’t be compared.
On Monday, Mexico’s president rejected those comments, which were made following a meeting between Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“Mexico must be respected, especially by its trading partners,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said, after Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., Kirsten Hillman, told The Associated Press on Sunday that “the message that our border is so vastly different than the Mexican border was really understood.”
Sheinbaum said Canada had its own problems with fentanyl consumption and “could only wish they had the cultural riches Mexico has.”
Trump has threatened to impose 25% tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico unless they stem the flow of migrants and drugs.
Flows of migrants and seizures of drugs at the two countries’ border are vastly different.
U.S. customs agents seized 43 pounds of fentanyl at the Canadian border during the last fiscal year, compared with 21,100 pounds at the Mexican border. Mexico’s efforts to seize fentanyl before it reaches the U.S. have been lackluster.
Most of the fentanyl reaching the U.S. — where it causes about 70,000 overdose deaths annually — is made by Mexican drug cartels using precursor chemicals smuggled from Asia.
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On immigration, the U.S. Border Patrol made 56,530 arrests at the Mexican border in October alone, while there were only 23,721 arrests at the Canadian border between October 2023 and September 2024. During the same period, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 1.53 million encounters with migrants at the southwest border withe Mexico.
Mexico feels especially hurt by the Canadian comments, because Mexican officials claim their government went to bat for Canada in the past. They claim that Trump, during his first term, initially wanted to leave Canada out of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement in 2018, and Mexico demanded it be included. It is unclear if that was actually the case.
Trudeau also got ahead of Sheinbaum by meeting with the U.S. president-elect first. Both leaders are scrambling to get some assurances before Trump takes office.
Hillman said Canada is ready to make new investments in border security and there are plans for more helicopters, drones and law enforcement officers. She also noted an agreement between Canada and the U.S. that allows for migrants caught crossing illegally to be sent back to Canada. She said Mexico and the U.S. do not have a similar agreement.
On Monday, Sheinbaum revealed more about her own conversation last week with Trump, saying he “had agreed” that Mexico wanted to focus on intelligence sharing in anti-drug efforts, noting “he said that in his opinion that was good.”
But she said Mexico would reject any direct U.S. intervention in Mexico and continue to enforce the tight restrictions on U.S. law enforcement agencies in Mexico imposed by her predecessor. “That is going to maintained,” she said.