Mexico's Sheinbaum Blasts Trump Admin's Move: 'Completely Exaggerated'
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At a Thursday press conference, Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum called the U.S. government's decision to once again close the border to cattle imports, "completely exaggerated," following the detection of a screwworm case in Veracruz, Mexico.
On Wednesday evening, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced an immediate suspension of live cattle, horse, and bison imports through southern border ports due to the continued northward spread of the New World Screwworm (NWS) in Mexico.
"From our point of view, they took a completely exaggerated decision in closing the border," Sheinbaum said Thursday.
The USDA had previously reopened certain ports, such as Douglas, Arizona, after Mexico's efforts to control the pest.
Newsweek has reached out to Mexico's Foreign Ministry for comment via email on Thursday.
La presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum calificó como totalmente exagerada la decisión del gobierno de Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 de volver a cerrar la frontera con México 🇲🇽 a la importación de ganado, tras la detección de un caso de gusano barrenador en Veracruz. pic.twitter.com/yImLsQgnPm — IMER Noticias (@IMER_Noticias) July 10, 2025
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