United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem suggested Monday that President Claudia Sheinbaum could reach a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump to avoid tariffs on Mexican goods if Mexico complies with a list of U.S. requests.
During an interview broadcast on Fox News, chief political anchor Bret Baier asked Noem whether she believes Sheinbaum is “doing enough to defeat the cartels down there.”
La secretaria Kristi Noem dijo que dio algunas opciones sobre seguridad a la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum durante su reunión del viernes; calificó a la mandataria mexicana como “extraordinaria”.pic.twitter.com/4E4bHQcFC3
— Joaquín López-Dóriga (@lopezdoriga) April 1, 2025
“You know we talked extensively about that,” said the cabinet secretary, who met with the Mexican President in Mexico City last Friday.
“I gave her some options of more she could do. She’s participated a lot on our southern border, but we want her to secure her southern border with Guatemala,” Noem said.
“We want her to share some more information with us. Right now we don’t scan every single shipment that comes into this country over air freight. We have some information sharing that could happen on criminal background checks so I gave her a list of things that President Trump would be very happy to see and she was remarkable,” she said.
Noem said that her meeting with Sheinbaum was “very productive” and lasted almost two hours, much longer than the scheduled 30 minutes.
“She did sign some of those agreements with us, and I asked her specifically to share biometric information [of migrants] with us and she’s willing to discuss that even though that in her country would be a little bit controversial,” Noem said.
“She’s putting a good faith effort, but President Trump is clear. He doesn’t want people to keep talking, he wants to see action and she has an opportunity to do some things that I will give a report to the president on, and see if we can deal with the tariff situation that may be facing her people,” she said.
The United States has already imposed 25% tariffs on Mexican steel and aluminum and imports from Mexico not covered by the USMCA free trade pact. A 25% tariff on imports of vehicles to the United States is due to take effect this week, but U.S. content in vehicles assembled in Mexico will be exempt from the duty, lowering the effective tariff on vehicles made in Mexico.
In addition, the Trump administration intends to soon impose reciprocal tariffs on imports from U.S. trading partners, with an announcement to be made on Wednesday afternoon.
.@PressSec Karoline Leavitt: “On Wednesday it will be ‘Liberation Day’ in America as President Trump has so proudly dubbed it…the president will be announcing a tariff plan that will roll back the unfair trade practices that have been ripping off our country for decades.” pic.twitter.com/igw3zgVRfg
— CSPAN (@cspan) March 31, 2025
“We’re going to be very nice, relatively speaking, we’re going to be very kind,” Trump told reporters on Monday.
The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that “White House aides have drafted a proposal to impose tariffs of around 20 percent on most imports to the United States, three people familiar with the matter said, as President Donald Trump pushes for the most aggressive overhaul of the global economic system in decades.”
Sheinbaum said last week that her government will provide “a comprehensive response” to the United States’ tariffs on April 3, once it knows whether Mexican goods will face additional duties.
“We don’t want to give a response to each issue, but rather a comprehensive response,” said the president, who pledged to “always protect Mexico.”
On Tuesday, she reiterated that her government will wait to see what happens on Wednesday while maintaining dialogue with its U.S. and Canadian counterparts.
Asked at her morning press conference about potential retaliation to additional U.S. tariffs on Mexican goods, Sheinbaum said:
“We don’t believe in an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth because that always leads to a bad situation.”
With regard to Noem’s remarks, Sheinbaum stressed on Tuesday that she did not agree to anything requiring the transfer of biometric data and that she “only responds to the people of Mexico.”
Mexico News Daily
She’s smart not to hand over any biometric data and let the tarrifs begin. Once the USA has biometric data, every country will have it. Just say no.
Yes totally agree. Trump is following the playbook of Hitler and needs to be stopped. His tariffs will have such a devastating effect on US citizens that maybe those diehard MAGA supporters will see the light. Perhaps. When he strips all benefits, funding and services, disbands the government, raises prices and taxes, gets corporations to take over everything and makes himself and his oligarch friends Great Again. The parallels to Nazism are unmistakable. Other nations need to resist, not cower to his ego and whim, because he changes his mind every other day and threatens democracy at every turn. He cannot be trusted. And good luck, Jim, getting rid of cartels; he cannot get rid of own US government corruption and handpicked sycophants of little experience or intelligence. Musk paying for votes??? What other developed nation allows this?
We all have a duty to keep calm, and to support anyone Trump comes after. Please write letters to the Supreme Court members, telling them to be strong, that we will have their back. If Trump defies the Court, then we may have no option but to unite with all our friends and families, and join with millions of other Americans, and shut Washington down. You’ve seen the videos from Turkey. Are they more determined to protect democracy than we are?
Yet I don’t think it will come to this. If we vocally support the judges and representatives, they will stand strong. We are all in this together.
Mexico is blessed in Sheinbaum. I trust her judgment and her courage. I hope all Mexicans continue to support her.
What the Hell are you talking Propaganda crap about Nazi Nonsense again? Get your “TDS” UNDER control & STOP looking like such a DUMBASS! We have terrorists inside our Country due to Senile Joe Biden & Mexico allowing enemies to our Country utilizing illegal entry & travel through their Country. Bad choice for Mexico to do that it, as it was harming a strong neighboring Country. Your Socialist Marxist Communist outlooks on what the USA is & the direction it is going is pathetic! Now go to your corner in the kitchen & finish your milk & cookies before you look like a Bigger Dumbass!
It must be sad to live in your bigoted, antisemitic, hated filled universe. Your willingness to invoke terms like Nazism and Hitler simply to promote your own agenda while offending and hurting millions who actually understand the meaning of those terms shows a complete lack of integrity and common decency. To reduce the deaths of nearly two thirds of all european jews and over 75 million people on the planet all to promote a political position, is disgusting behavior. You would be better served going off and attempting to educate yourself rather than use vugar strawman allegations towards those whose cognitive capacity, morality, and emotional intelligence are all well beyond yours.
Amen. As I have long said, the goal should be to end the gratuitous violence down there. Corruption is more prolific north of the border.
Absolutely.
ditto
I agree.
I mean to agree Mexico should not turn over biometric date. Demand for drugs is high United States states. Cut the demand. Take responsibility for your citizens. Stop using Mexico as an excuse.
Get rid of the cartels or Trump will.
Get rid of the demand in the USA…Is his job. Good luck with the “drug on war”; how many years it has been? A joke in the USA.
Agree! … everyone blames DRUGS – but what about the USERS ?? … inflation in US?7 Stress of making it to the next month$ … need to de-stress … Social Security has not been operated as a WEALTH FUND for decades – why not ? – the whole answer is IMPROVE LIVES of Americans. NO demand…suppliers will go elsewhere
Why is it that Cartels look at DRUG ADDICTS AS Opportunity and Dollar Signs In fact they are Human Beings with a physical and Mental illness.
Yes!
it is in action now. It is amazing – i wrote to The White House saying before blaming the cartels… look at yourself… 101 Marketing: when there is demand – suppliers come…. RUN SOCIAL SECURITY as a WEALTH FUND to provide BETTER for Americans and take away the horrible stress today to financially make it. !!! A week later Trump issues an executive order to run SSI as a Wealth fund and a famous economist is contacted for advice…to me this is phenomenal….so we shall see how they manage it. This alone can stop the cartels coming to US
Can you say russian mafia?
Robert. Educate yourself. ONE: watch interview w Sofia Smallstorm on SGT Report..all American , no Russian mafia. Read Dean Hendersen.. Greg Reese. Martin Armstrong.. all American. CIA infiltrator?
Trump and his bloody politics-as-game-show approach.
If you can just do this one last thing, I won’t kick you off the island.
Beyond pathetic.
But it does make for headlines, attention, scandal, and chaos (which is Trump’s raison d’etre).
Exactly. Jim seems to not understand though.
Please tell me this is an April Fools joke because it’s so outlandish it can’t be true.
🍿🍿🍺🍺 🇲🇽
God I wish it were!
The joke is that Trump is running the US government … unfortunately the punchline is not funny 🥃🥃🇲🇽
All these lefty posts are definitely from some April fools. You people really don’t have a clue. The days of Mexico using the U.S. as a feedbag and playing all the customs games at the border to keep U.S. good out are coming to an end. FAFO folks.
Written by another MAGA simpleton who knows no history but has acquired the skill of repeating Trumply talking points.
Great that Trump’s going to be “very nice and very kind.” That’s all right then!
All you Trump lovers keep drinking the kool aid, everyone knows who and what he is. In his quest to “make america great again” he’s slowly destroying what America is, one of the greatest countries in the world. Viva Mexico!!
Amen. Mexico’ s Presidenta far outshines mine.
What is biometric data or information? Why is there a concern about sharing it etc? Thanks.
The amount of ignorance (ideological and cultural) in some of the comments is truly amazing. Some of the ad hominem attacks are just plain sad.
Several of the comments straight out of communist manifesto. The hate for the USA is palpable. My family from Canada, I was raised in USA and I’m very pro Mexico, I love the place. The cartels have to be destroyed. I dream of a Mexico without the scourge of the cartel network. Imagine Mexico’s future without this criminal enterprise.
This means economy and education must STEP UP! I want to know what happened BEFORE Mexican LOST DECADE as they call it… because.. then… and NOW… Cartels pay people in hand… in small towns there are no opportunities…. young men have to compete who cuts the lawn for the foreigner job…so sooner or later they join the cartel to financially survive
Off the wall if not paranoid.
I’d like to see you give a single citation from the Communist Manifesto you have certainly never read, instead using the name to bludgeon anything from a political perspective you don’t like. Pretty sad.
Wow! Increasingly hostile US political polarization comes to MND’s Comments. Should any of us wonder why the gaps continue to widen? Let those who choose to live within their bubbles of misinformation & deception do so. Time & prevailing realities will ultimately be the only means to burst those bubbles.
Well, I suppose that’s one way to answer the question.
At least Claudia picked the perfect lovely lady to snooze with Trump!
I would really like in the very near future, tomorrow is not soon enough, that President Trump INVITES La Presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum ( and spouse ) to the White House . . . meeting with cabinet officials and then a state dinner in La Presidenta honor . . . I believe that Claudia and Melania will “hit it off” on a personal basis so to speak
Response; Curt April 1, 2025 At 9:48 pm
Why is it that Cartels look at DRUG ADDICTS AS Opportunity and Dollar Signs In fact they are Human Beings with a physical and Mental illness.
— SIMPLY BUSINESS as any other. Look what DOGE is uncovering – same at gov level. Ask yourself WHY YOU are NOT an addict… I am not an addict… put a table full of any drug in front of me – i wont touch it… so why are drug USERS put themselves in this situation … Self Responsibility…. ????
“Complies” 🤦🏻♀️😂’Murica🤡
No. No. The Trump and his administration is a team of pathological liars. The Trump administration just told the American people tariffs are going to make the country rich.
If La Preidenta gives him more, he and his team will bleed México dry. His family and team have ties to facist based ideology. They have no respect for human rights, the rule if law of shariing prosperity. They believe in the golden rule. “Those with the gold make the rules and everybody else can eat cake!” La Presidenta; tariffs are more than deserved by the USA! Tge rucbezt, most powerful country in the world is only a vicitim of corporate greed, not tariffs! Homeland Secretary left her state in poor condition and has ignored their needs to date.
Mexico is not a pet dog that you will be kind to. It is great big grown-up nation to be respected and treated with reciprocal dignity. It doesn’t need to be given favors or talked down to like Trump does. Claudia is remarkable in her restraint in dealing with the orange idiot. No doubt she has at least double his IQ. Mexico indeed needs to deal with their cartel’s impunity problem, but Trump almost makes them seem like freedom fighters. Mexico is dealing with the issue, and I wish them every success. Meanwhile, try not to take down both USA and Mexico’s economies in the process.
Trump has the world by the balls. No more BS. No more cartels, no more fentanyl, no more unfair trade, no more Illegals. The US is done getting ripped off.