Mexico has deployed the first of 10,000 officers on its northern border after the tariff threats of President Donald Trump. A Mexican National Guard line and army trucks rumbled along the border separating Ciudad Juárez and the passage in Texas. Patrols were also seen in other parts of the border near Tijuana.
The members of the masked and armed national guard picked up a brush that ran along the border barrier on the outskirts of Ciudad Juárez, drawing improvised stairs and hidden ropes in the trenches, and pulling the trucks.
This occurs after a tumultuous week along the border after an announcement of the president of the United States that he would delay imposing paralyzing rates in Mexico for at least a month. In return, Mexican president Claudia
Sheinbaum promised that he would send to the country’s National Guard to reinforce the border and take energetic measures against fentanyl smuggling.
Trump declares emergency at the border
Trump has declared an emergency on the border despite the levels of migration and the fentanyl overdose that is significantly immersed during the partial year.
The United States said that, in turn, it would do more to prevent US weapons from being trafficked in Mexico to boost the violence of the poster, which has spread to other parts of the country as criminal groups fight to control the lucrative industry of industry of smuggling migrants.
On Tuesday, the first of those forces reached the border cities, leaving government aircraft. The guard members in Wednesday’s patrol confirmed that they were part of the new force.
1,650 officers are expected to be sent to Ciudad Juáre
At least 1,650 officers were expected to be sent to Ciudad Juárez, according to government figures, which makes it one of the largest receptors of border reinforcements in the country, only surpassed by Tijuana, where 1,949 personnel are sent.
During the trip of the Secretary of State for Marco Rubio in Latin America, where migration was at the top of the agenda, the main American diplomat thanked the Mexican government for the forces, according to a statement by the Mexican government.
The observers saw the negotiation of Sheinbaum as a bit of cunning political maneuver by the newly chosen Mexican leader.
Many had questioned that she could sail Trump’s presidency as effectively as her predecessor and ally, former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
(With Associated Press tickets)
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