In an unexpected move – even for Donald Trump – the U.S. president announced Thursday that he will impose a five-percent tariff on all goods entering from Mexico unless it halted the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States.

President Andes Manuel López Obrador has announced his government will put an end to tax breaks for Mexico’s largest companies.

Citing harsh budget cuts that put the health of patients – especially the poor – at risk, Germán Martínez Cázares resigned this week as director of the Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social (IMSS), the government-sponsored health care program that covers nearly half of the nation’s citizens.

At least 20,000 citizens demonstrated throughout Mexico last weekend calling for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s resignation.

Expats in Mexico are the happiest in the world, with the country ranking first out of 68 for personal happiness, according to the the Expat Insider 2018 survey. 

Despite the reports of chaos at the U.S. border caused by an increased flow of migrants seeking asylum in the United States, my recent brief trip to San Diego, California proved uneventful, with no issues to report while crossing over at San Ysidro.