President-elect Trump said Monday that upon taking office he would issue an executive order to impose a 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada on all products entering the United States, as well as additional tariff increases on China due to the flow of undocumented immigrants. medications.

In a Truth Social post, Trump, who takes office on January 20, 2025, said thousands of people were streaming “throughout” Mexico and Canada “at levels never seen before.”

“Right now, a caravan from Mexico consisting of thousands of people appears unstoppable in its quest to get through our currently open border,” he wrote. “On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% tariff on ALL products entering the United States, and the ridiculous open borders.”

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President-elect Trump announced Monday his intention to charge Canada, China and Mexico significant tariffs on their goods entering the United States, due to the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs across the border. (Allison Robbert-Pool/Getty Images/Getty Images)

“This tariff will remain in effect until drugs, especially Fentanyl, and all illegal aliens stop this invasion of our country!” he added. “Both Mexico and Canada have the absolute right and power to easily resolve this long-simmering problem.”

Trump, dating back to his first administration, has long pushed Mexico to be more proactive in preventing the flow of illegal immigrants and illegal drugs into the United States.

“And until they do, it’s time for them to pay a very high price!” he said.

In a subsequent post, Trump said he would impose an additional 10% tariff on all Chinese goods imported into the US, on top of the “massive amounts” of drugs, particularly fentanyl, being smuggled into the US.

Trump said he has spoken to Chinese officials about fentanyl coming to the US, noting that the communist nation previously promised to put to death drug dealers involved in the illegal trade but failed to do so.

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“Until they stop, we will charge China an additional 10% tariff, above and beyond any additional tariffs, on all of their many products entering the United States of America,” he wrote.

Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and can be fatal in small doses, has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans and is a factor in many overdose deaths. Many illegal drugs are laced with fentanyl to make them cheaper and more potent. Some users don’t even know they are ingesting the substance.

U.S. officials have often said that illegal fentanyl is made in Mexico Chinese precursors and is then smuggled across the border by drug cartels.

“Indeed, unknown to most Americans, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is actively financing, supporting, and promoting America’s most deadly drug threat in history,” reads a Heritage Foundation report titled “Holding China and Mexico Accountable for America’s Fentanyl Crisis .”

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“The combined forces of deadly Mexican drug cartels and hostile Chinese ambitions have created a destabilizing crisis for the United States and a death toll that each year eclipses the total number of American casualties from the Vietnam War.”

The report shows that chemicals enter via air freight, postal facilities and maritime routes. The authors also point to reports of an increased Chinese role in networking in Canada.

Adam Shaw of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.