WASHINGTON (AP) Straining to stave off threatened U.S. tariffs, Mexican and American officials claimed progress in White House talks, but President Donald Trump said today that a lot of progress must be made to halt the import taxes he is holding out as a way to force Mexico to stanch the flow of Central American migrants flooding Americas southern border.
Talks were to resume later today.
Underscoring the scope of the border problem, the Department of Homeland Security announced separately that U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions of migrants illegally crossing the border hit the highest level in more than a decade in May: 132,887 apprehensions, including a record 84,542 adults and children together, 36,838 single adults and 11,507 children traveling alone.
