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Here’s a dispatch from David Agren, our correspondent in Mexico:

Mexico’s foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard said talks will continue tomorrow, but that US officials focused more on migration matters than tariffs today. That’s a departure from past years, when US and Mexican officials tried to keep matters like trade, security and migration separate.

“What the US government is looking for are measures in the short-term and medium-term” on migration, Ebrard said. Mexico is promoting a multi-billion dollar development deal for Central America, which president Andrés Manuel López Obrador insists will slow migration, but observers say won’t show results for decades.

Mexico acknowledged the flows of migrants “are growing too much” and can’t continue.

Mexico is desperate to do a deal. The economy has been sluggish and with tariffs, it’s expected to worsen. Two rating agencies worsened their outlook for Mexico today. Another caravan also entered the country and soldiers just stopped it.