"Mr. President, everything is ready. We have to invade Mexico." This is how Trump joked and pressured López Obrador until he "doubled" him

"Mexico folded," says Jared Kushner, former President Donald Trump's son-in-law, in his memoir,

, in which he looks back on his four years as a White House adviser.

Kushner describes a Trump pact with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to help him with his political agenda in exchange for reducing migrant crossings at the border.

"Our relationship is going to be very simple... pay attention to these data [on illegal crossings]," Kushner says Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard.

[Mexican authorities find 45 migrants in a truck]

“If they go up, we are going to have problems.

If they go down, they will have an incredible partner who will help them with whatever priority they have,” he added during a private meeting in Washington DC in 2018, shortly after the Mexican president took office from him.

Jared Kushner, in a file photo. Andrew Harnik / AP

At stake was their trade relationship and the negotiation of the treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada, according to Kushner.

Almost 40% of the Mexican economy depends on exports to the US.

“I made a 12-hour trip to Mexico City to deliver my message directly to AMLO: If Mexico did not act immediately to reduce illegal border crossings, all deals were off, including USMCA,” Kushner writes in his book. .

[Mexican 'Las Libres' are receiving more and more calls in English from the US asking for help with an abortion]

In May 2019, Trump announced tariffs on imports from Mexico in retaliation for a spike in border crossings, which reached a record 144,000 that month.

In response, Mexico deployed 25,000 military personnel to stem the flow of migrants.

"Your stunt worked," I told [Trump].

The chancellor showed me his letters.

Mexico will bend,” Kushner writes.

Migrants intercepted at the border began to decline, reaching 52,000 in September and 38,000 in October 2019, according to Customs and Border Protection data.

Trump (right) and AMLO at their meeting on July 8, 2020. Evan Vucci / AP

Kushner's book, to which the Mexican newspaper Reforma had access, will go on sale on Amazon in the third week of August.

In it he also describes another tense meeting between the Mexican government and the White House a few months later, in September 2019.

Ebrard traveled to Washington DC to meet with Trump on September 10 and assess the situation of irregular border crossings.

Kushner says that, after inviting him to sit in front of the presidential desk, Trump started saying that his national security adviser, John Bolton, had suggested invading Mexico.

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“Trump paused and looked directly at Ebrard: 'This morning, John came into my office and said: Mr. President, everything is ready.

We have to invade Mexico;

they're not doing enough on the southern border,' and I said, 'John, that's too much.

That's the last straw.

I would never do that to my friend AMLO or to the great people of Mexico.

You're fired," Kushner wrote of the meeting.

"Ebrard was shocked," Kushner added, "but when he saw me laugh at the joke, he cracked a smile and relaxed."