Deporting migrants, promoting the oil industry and cryptocurrencies are some of the measures that Donald Trump promised for his second term.
These are the Republican’s main proposals on the issues that marked the election and how they can affect Mexico.
What does Donald Trump propose?
Regarding the economy, the Republican millionaire is considering imposing customs duties of “more than 10%” on all imports.
With this income he wants to finance “a big tax cut for the middle class, the upper class, the lower class and the business class.”
Donald Trump also promised to turn the United States into “the world capital of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies” and to entrust billionaire Elon Musk with the responsibility of a major audit of the US administration.
The former president, who waged a tough trade war with China during his first term, also plans to revoke the “most favored nation” clause granted to Beijing to expand bilateral trade.
Donald Trump slammed the door on the Paris Climate Agreement during his first term (2017-21). In his 2024 campaign, the Republican promised to “quickly end the great green scam”, that is to say the hundreds of billions of dollars allocated by the administration of Democrat Joe Biden to the climate.
“We are going to drill (for oil) like crazy!”, he also promises his supporters.
According to him, this will allow energy prices to “fall very quickly”.
“In many cases, we will reduce their energy costs by half,” said the Republican millionaire.
On the immigration issue, on his first day in office, Trump promises to carry out “the largest internal expulsion operation” in history because he considers that migrants “poison the blood” of the country.
“We will send them back as soon as possible,” he says at his rallies.
Known for his project to build a border wall with Mexico, the septuagenarian does not rule out “using the army” and opening new detention camps to carry out these expulsions.
He also plans to deny the children of “irregular migrants” the right to land, which grants citizenship to people born in the United States.
And he threatens to “restore” his controversial immigration decree against Muslim countries.
On another key issue of the process, the Republican boasts of being the architect of the annulment of the federal right to abortion, decided in June 2022 by the Supreme Court. But he is much more ambiguous when it comes to talking about the future of voluntary terminations of pregnancy in the country.
The religious right would like Trump to promise to ban abortion nationwide by federal law, but he knows that this measure is very unpopular and abstains.
He recommends that everyone act according to “their conscience” and reminds rallies that one must not forget “that one must also win elections.”
“My administration will be excellent for women and their reproductive rights,” he says.
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In foreign policy, Donald Trump says that he would resolve the war in Ukraine “in 24 hours” if he were elected, without saying how.
“I have a very precise plan to stop Ukraine and Russia. And I have a certain idea – perhaps not a plan, but an idea – for China,” he said during an interview.
The former president, however, refused to comment on the details of these hypothetical plans.
“But I cannot give you those plans, because if I give them to you, I will not be able to use them, they will be very fruitless. Part of it is the surprise, right?” he commented.
Donald Trump has emerged as Israel’s absolute defender after the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, so he will maintain support for his main ally in the Middle East.
What are the proposals that affect Mexico?
In the last days of the campaign, Trump hardened his tone against Mexico.
A day before the election, he threatened to impose 25% tariffs on Mexico if it does not stop the entry of migrants at the border, which he described as an “onslaught” by “criminals and “drug dealers.”
“Now we have a new president of Mexico. She is supposed to be a very, very nice woman, they say. I don’t know her,” he said about the leftist Claudia Sheinbaum.
“I am going to inform her from the first day or before that if they do not stop this onslaught of criminals and drugs entering our country, I am going to immediately impose a 25% tariff on everything they send to the United States,” he specified at a rally in North Carolina, assuming that he will win the elections.
The probability that the measure will be successful is “100%,” he estimated.
“I will start with 25%, it is a lot. Do you know that Mexico is our number one trading partner? Do you know why that is? They earn a fortune. They have taken over our country” thanks to the government of President Joe Biden and Harris, he denounced.
Mexico “became our number one trading partner and they are scamming us left and right, it is ridiculous,” said the tycoon.
If 25% does not work, “I will impose 50% and if that does not work, 75%,” so “at some point they will have many soldiers” at the border to prevent crossings, insisted the former president, who has made the fight against illegal immigration his priority, with extreme rhetoric.
The millionaire has called them “murderers” and has even stated that they “poison the blood” of the country and “infect” it.
Trump, 78 years old and very close in the polls with Harris, repeats in his rallies that he is in favor of imposing tariffs to “bring back” companies to the country.
He is convinced that the effect will be positive. Many economists believe, on the contrary, that his economic plans will increase debt and inflation.
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