Mexico's President Sheinbaum says she will work with Trump on deportations, border issues and cartels, but laughs at his 'Gulf of America' order.

Washington — President Trump invoked muscular presidential powers to begin a sweeping crackdown on immigration following his inauguration on Monday, tasking the military with border enforcement, moving to designate cartels and gangs as terrorist groups, shutting down asylum and refugee admissions and attempting to terminate birthright citizenship.

The Department of Homeland Security moved quickly to implement a slew of President Donald Trump's immigration initiatives.

Among his first actions back in office, Trump declared a national emergency at the border, which will free up military funding to build more sections of a border wall, support operations to stop border crossings, and send troops to the southern border to, as he said in his Inaugural Address, “repel the disastrous invasion of our country.”

The Sheinbaum administration is gathering data to argue against tariffs, emphasizing their potential to harm U.S. economic growth and inflation.

Mexico's president emphasized on Tuesday that she will defend her nation's sovereignty and independence but also pursue dialogue with U.S. President Donald Trump, a day after he began his new term with a flurry of orders,

One of U.S. President Donald Trump’s first executive orders declared a national emergency at the border with Mexico, which will see the military deployed and the deportation of millions of undocumented migrants.