to avoid the duties.

Trump has threatened to slap 5% tariffs on all Mexican imports, starting Monday, unless the Mexican government stops the flow of Central American migrants coming to the U.S. southern border. He has vowed to increase the tariffs 5 percentage points a month, until they reach 25%.

Vice President Mike Pence and Mexico's Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard led an initial round of negotiations on Wednesday, but those failed to produce a breakthrough. The talks resumed Thursday morning at the State Department, where Ebrard spent nearly three hours behind closed doors with Trump administration officials.

“I think we are making advances,” the foreign minister told reporters as he left the building.

Although Trump said he would impose the tariffs on June 10, that may be a soft deadline. TrumpFriday, April 6, 2012

Passover begins tonight, and all around the world, Jewish families will gather with family and friends around the table to retell the story of the Israelites, their oppression, and their escape from the hands of Pharaoh's army into the vast and empty desert thanks to Moses, his brother Aaron, and the hand of God, who brought plagues from darkness to disease and death upon the Egyptian people in their attempt to persuade a slavemaster culture that their pyramids and comfort were not worth the wrath of a chosen people.

But modern Jews know well that how we retell that story is up to us: it is the engagement, and the resulting understanding that none of us are free until all chains are lifted from all peoples,