understood laura thank you so much for breaking that one down for us laura carlsen the on sky insistence oregon good structure thank you. another boat with migrants has been rescued by a merchant vessel in the mediterranean a day after nearly 400 people were saved by the maltese military footage released by sea watch international of weapons days rescues shows several days overloaded with people trying to get to europe the migrant rescue n.g.o.s says at least one of those dinghies deflated and sank it's not clear if there were any survivors. plenty more still to come for you here on the news hour include putting the blame game starts in sri lanka as officials testify over the easter sunday attacks that killed hundreds of people. in sport the head of african football has been questioned by the police in france paul we'll have that story in about 25 minutes. demonstrations are taking place in buenos aires right now where the brazilian president is on his 1st official visit to argentina protesters a critical of balsa not as conservative policies with many accusing him of homophobia and fasc

for more, we're joined by by laura carlsen, director of the mexico city-based americas program of theenter for international policy. welcome to democracy now! can you talk about what is happening here, the threat of president trump, what he is accusing mexico of, and mexico's response? >> this threat of imposing tariffs of 5% going up to 25% in october i is economic blackmail. essentially, what he is saying is that mexico should do more to alleviate -- and these are his words -- the crisis of illegal immigration at the border. in the letter that -- the statement that he put out regarding the tariffs, he says these tariffs will be in place until mexico has taken effective actions that will be determined by our discretion and our judgment. so it is not even clear exactly what mexico is supposed to do and how they are trying to negotiate what exactly happening at the border. we have to remember that this characterization of a border crisis is essentially false. these are not unprecedented numbers. this is not an unmanagegeable situation. it is a manufactured crisis that donald trump is u

that government and to president trump to decide whether this is enough as negotiations continue laura carlsen is director of the americas program at the center for international policy she was recently in tijuana to research the crisis on the us mexico border and she says mexico is offering a long term plan the could be very effective. instead knuckly not dared to the threat of tariffs of donald trump it will cherry out this regional development plan in central america in order to try to stop the roots of the migration that is a plan that would focus on development and would focus on creating jobs and better conditions in the countries of origin it's a longer term plan but it's it has much greater chances of success enduring success in the short term crackdown that donald trump is ordering largely for electoral reasons win win for donald trump on immigration issues is a lose lose not only for immigrants themselves but for the other governments what's interesting merican countries have to do is change their social policies so people don't feel like they're forced to flee because of the high ra