The Mexican president says that she told Donald Trump that Mexico “will never accept the presence of the American army on our territory”.
Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum Said that she rejected an offer from her American counterpart, Donald Trump, to send us troops to Mexico to help fight drug trafficking.
Speaking at a public event on Saturday, Sheinbaum said Trump asked him during an appeal how he could help fight organized crime and suggested sending American troops.
The Mexican chief said that she had refused, telling Trump: “We will never accept the presence of the American army on our territory.”
Sheinbaum added: “I said to him:” No, President Trump, our territory is inviolable, our sovereignty is inviolable, our sovereignty is not for sale. “”
His comments come a day after the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump was putting pressure on Mexico to allow “more in -depth American military involvement” in the Fighting drug cartels.
Citing anonymous people familiar with the issue, the media said that “tension increases” during a call on April 16 between the two leaders while Trump “pushed the American armed forces playing a leading role in the fight against Mexican drug gangs that produce and pass fentanyl in the United States”.
Since his entry into office in January, Trump has hit Mexico several times and the other neighbor of the United States, Canada, on drug trafficking.
He accused the two countries of authorizing illegal drugs, including fentanyl, of circulating on their borders in the United States.
Trump administration has also linked its push to impose steep prices On Mexican and Canadian products in the milking of fentanyl, among other factors.
On Saturday, Sheinbaum said that she had proposed to collaborate with the United States during her talks with Trump, in particular by a greater information sharing.
At the same time, the Mexican president said that she had urged Trump to arrest the cross -border weapons trafficking This contributed to a wave of violence that killed more than 450,000 in Mexico for almost two decades.
She added that Trump had made a prescription on Friday “to make sure that everything necessary is in place to prevent weapons from entering our country in the United States”.
A spokesman for the US National Security Council told the Reuters news agency that Trump had been “clear that Mexico should do more to fight these gangs and the cartels and that the United States is ready to help and extend the already close cooperation between our two countries.”
The spokesperson added that Trump had worked closely with Sheinbaum to make the “most secure southwest border in history”.
But “dangerous foreign terrorist organizations continue to threaten our common security and the drug and the crime they distribute threaten the American communities across the country,” said the spokesman.
Meanwhile, Trump continued to move forward with his plan to carry out the “greatest deportation operation” in American history, despite several legal challenges Against his hard-on-line anti-immigration policies.
The US Defense Ministry said earlier this week that he had appointed a second section on the border with Mexico as a military zone to enforce immigration laws.
The most recent area is in the American state of Texas and is attached to the base of the army of Fort Bliss in El Paso.
Like the first area established last month in New Mexico, military staff is authorized to take care of migrants who cross the border irregularly until they are transferred to the civil authorities of the American department of internal security.
