Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Friday, Nov. 13, that no migrant caravan was then traveling through Mexico toward the United States, according to The Straits Times. The report said Sheinbaum described one earlier caravan as dissolved and another as just forming.
A Mexican government transcript of Sheinbaum’s Nov. 12 briefing records her saying no caravan had reached the country’s northern border since U.S. President Donald Trump took office. At that briefing, she described two groups in southern Mexico: one in Arriaga, Chiapas, that had fallen from about 500–600 people to fewer than 100, and another from Honduras.
Sheinbaum said Mexican authorities inform migrants that reaching the United States is difficult and help those who choose to return to their countries. She said authorities would provide humanitarian assistance and ruled out repression.
Trump said in a Nov. 12 Truth Social post that Mexico would face an immediate doubling of tariffs unless it stopped the migrant groups, a threat covered in EconoTimes’ earlier report.
Reports differed on the size of a group in southern Mexico. The Straits Times, citing Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM), reported about 870 people gathered in Huixtla; two local sources and a nongovernmental organization estimated 1,500–2,000. NDTV’s Reuters-syndicated report said about 1,500 people had set off from Tapachula earlier in the week. The reports do not establish whether the figures track the same group at different points.
Mexico and the United States exchanged about $779 billion in goods during the first nine months of 2026, The Straits Times reported. Mexican Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard said the migrant group was not affecting ongoing trade negotiations as of Friday, the outlet reported.
