Mexican Officials Have Taken to Social Media to Ease Tensions With the U.S. Over Immigration and Trade

There were few migrants in the streets or camping in the public parks of Tapachula.Those passing through Mexico without transit visas have opted to maintain a low-profile over the past weeks as Mexico seeks to detain and deport more migrants — and to draw attention to those efforts.The National Migration Institute tweeted a picture Saturday of a plane transporting 64 Cubans back to their country from the Gulf state of Veracruz.Trump says he will impose a 5% tariff on Mexican goods beginning June 10 as a way to force the government of Mexico to keep mostly Central American migrants from crossing into the U.S. He says that until he is satisfied with Mexico’s results, the import tax will be increased five percentage points every month through October, topping out at a total tariff of 25%.Yet there are no concrete benchmarks for Mexico to prove that it is stemming immigration flows.Mick Mulvaney, acting White House chief of staff, said on “Fox News Sunday” that Trump is “deadly serious” about imposing tariffs on imports, adding that “there’s no specific target, there’s no specific percentage” that Mexico needs to hit.“They have to get dramatically better and they have to get better quickly,” Mulvaney said.López Obrador said Mexican officials will try to better communicate their immigration efforts in Washington this week.