President-elect Donald Trump said he talked to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and they agreed to close their shared border, a claim Sheinbaum soon after appeared to reject. Trump said the countries will be “effectively closing our southern border.

Trump wrote that the Mexican president had "agreed to stop Migration through Mexico...effectively closing our Southern Border."

US President-elect Donald Trump's plan to impose high import tariffs on Mexican goods has sparked a discussion with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on migration policy at their shared border. Sheinbaum on Wednesday described the conversation as "excellent" on social media platform X,