As President Donald Trump rolls out his “America First” policies, few countries have more to lose than Mexico.

A sense of despair has engulfed the migrant camp of La Soledad, named after the colonial-era church that towers over the shantytown in downtown Mexico City. It was supposed to be a temporary stop, a place to regroup and wait for the right moment to continue on toward the United States.

If U.S. President Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to slap 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico it could usher in a volatile new chapter in the longstanding trade relationship with the impacts hitting consumers.

Trump, 78, issued a presidential memorandum reinstating the so-called Mexico City Policy, which prevents the federal government from funding groups that finance abortion procedures in foreign

Aboard Air Force One, while en route to view wildfire devastation in California, President Trump signed a series of executive actions aimed at preventing the use of federal taxpayer dollars

who built a city on which Mexico City was later erected. He noted that while people from the United States typically use “America” to mean their country, the term long predates the nation and ...

Workers begin the installation of a temporary shelter for possible deportees from the United States, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) Migrants eat at a shelter Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in the border city of ...

Mexico is constructing tents to receive Mexican nationals deported under Trump's mass deportations and provide them with services to help resettle.

Then in 2023 they set out for the United States, a perilous trip that began ... Dec. 12, 2024 The two eventually made their way to Mexico City, paying about $200 for their shanty in La Soledad.

Mexico has received non-Mexican migrants from the United States in the past week, and Central American nations could also reach similar agreements with the U.S. to accept deportees from other countries,

Under international law, countries are obligated to receive their own citizens who are deported by another country. But in practice, there are often ways to push back. Countries can block deportation flights from landing, decline to issue travel documents to their citizens and refuse to acknowledge that the deportees are their citizens.