To stop the application of tariffs from Donald Trump to Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo negotiated the mobilization of 10 thousand members of the National Guard to the northern border, to avoid the passage of migrants but also that of Fentanyl and this Tuesday began the maneuver .
Mexico began on Tuesday the troop movement to begin reinforcing the northern border of the country with the 10 thousand new members of the National Guard committed to the United States As part of the agreement to pause the imposition of 25% tariffs decreed by President Donald Trump.
“They started sending,” said President Claudia Sheinbaum During his morning conference.
A hundred elements left the Mérida airportaccording to The Associated Press. While local media showed how Varías Units more prepared to leave during the morning of Cancun and Campecheall cities of the Mexican southeast, destined for the border with the United States.
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There are currently about 10,000 troops in the border states although these elements have not been able to reduce violence in that region of intense activity of organized crime. An example is the seven men that the authorities located dead on Monday in San Luis Río Colorado, a small town just at the border with Arizona.
As explained by President Sheinbaum, The new deployment is made up.
The objective of reinforcement is to try to stop not only migrants, whose number had already been substantially reduced for 2024, but fentanyl trafficwhich causes per year about 70 thousand deaths of Americans due to overdose, according to the health authorities of the neighboring country.
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But the president stressed that the government “does not leave the rest of the country without security” but what is being carried out is a “reorientation of the forces.”
Currently, of the 120 thousand elements that the National Guard has, about 30 thousand patrol the country’s roads and help in the control of migrationSheinbaum said.
In 2019, during Trump’s first administration, the American reached a similar agreement with former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024) when the Republican also threatened to impose tariffs on Mexico and then postponed the measure after the Mexican government reinforced The military presence in the borders.
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On that occasion Mexico agreed to mobilize 15 thousand uniformed to the northern border and another 6,500 to the southern border to stop the flow of migrants.
The current deployment is part of the agreements that open the negotiations between Mexico and the United States on security, migration and trade issues in order to try to avoid tariffs.
“I hope to participate in these negotiations, with President (Mexican Claudia) Sheinbaum, while trying to achieve an ‘agreement’ between our two countries,” Trump said Monday.
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