The U.S. ambassador to Mexico is planning to resign in May, she announced Thursday.
Ambassador Roberta S. Jacobson, 57, served in the post for almost two years after a slow confirmation process.
Jacobson announced on Twitter she’s leaving “in search of new opportunities.”
She added in the tweet she did not know who her replacement would be.
— Roberta Jacobson (@EmbRoberta) March 1, 2018
The Trump administration has already selected a replacement for Jacobson, but the name has not been released yet, according to a report in the New York Times.
Jacobson’s resignation comes amid tense relations between the U.S. and Mexico. Trump has continually pledged to make Mexico pay for a border wall between the two countries, deport millions of immigrants back to Mexico and has threatened to opt-out of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Just last week, the Mexican president canceled a White House visit that was supposed to take place in early March after a heated phone call with Trump on the topic of who would pay for the proposed border wall.
