Kevin McAleenan praised Donald Trump for playing hardball with the Mexico tariff threats, says he forced them to make 'real proposals.'
Fox News anchor Bret Baier pushed acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan to describe anything"new" in President Donald Trump's deal with Mexico, which led him to brag that Trump's tariff threats brought Mexican officials to the table within hours.report that described Trump's deal as consisting"largely of actions that Mexico had already promised to take.
McAleenan praised Trump's tariff threats, citing the move as the power move which forced Mexico to come with"real proposals.""All of it is new," McAleenan claimed Sunday."I mean, we've heard commitments before from Mexico to do more on their southern border. The last time they deployed down there, it's about four or five hundred officers. This is a more than tenfold commitment to increase their security in Chiapas.
"This is the first time we've heard anything like this kind of law enforcement being deployed in Mexico to address migration, not just at their southern border but also on their transportation routes to the northern border," McAleenan said. Earlier this month, McAleenan beat the drum of tariff threats in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper."We need Mexico to step up and do more. We need them at the table looking at new strategies that we can aggressively move out on."
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