Trump Gets Mexico Deal — and Once Again Backs Away From Tariffs
- Mexico agreed to national guard deployment, asylum changes
- President: Mexico will buy ‘large quantities’ of farm products
Photographer: Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty Images
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President Donald Trump pushed Mexico -- and his own party -- to the brink when he threatened massive new tariffs over illegal immigration. And he now has a cross-border deal to show for it.
He also added another chapter in his now-familiar pattern on tariffs: threaten to go big, pull back at the last minute.