Sheinbaum says she rejected Trump’s offer to send US troops to Mexico | Military News

The Mexican president says he told Donald Trump that Mexico “will never accept the presence of the US army in our territory.”

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says she rejected an offer from her counterpart from the United States, Donald Trump, to send US troops to Mexico to help fight drug trafficking.

Speaking in a public event on Saturday, Sheinbaum said Trump had asked him for a call of how he could help fight organized crime and suggested sending US troops.

The Mexican leader said that she declined and told Trump: “We never accept the presence of the United States Army in our territory.”

“I said,” no, President Trump, our territory is inviolable, our superimposition is inviolable, our pride is not on sale, “said Sheinbaum.

His comments arrive a day after the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump was pressing Mexico to allow “deeper American military participation” in the fight against drug cartels.

Citing the family of people not identified with the matter, the media said that the “tension of the tension” lasted a call of April 16 between the two leaders when Trump “pressed so that the US armed forces assume a main role in the fight against Mexican gangs of drug gangs that produce gang gangs.

Since he assumed the position in January, Trump has repeatedly hit Mexico and the other neighbor of the United States, Canada, on drug trafficking.

He has been accused of the two countries of allowing illegal drugs, most of the fentanyl, flows on their borders to the United States.

The Trump administration has also tied to impose pronounced tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods to Fentanyl traffic, among other factors.

On Saturday, Sheinbaum said he had sacrificed to collaborate with the disease of the United States his conversations with Trump, even through greater information participation.

At the same time, the Mexican president said he had urged Trump to stop traffic of cross -border weapons that has contributed to a wave of violence that has killed more than 450,000 in Mexico approximately two decades.

He added that Trump issued an order on Friday “to ensure that everything necessary is in his place to prevent weapons from entering our country from the United States.”

Meanwhile, Trump has continued advancing with his plan to carry out the “largest deportation operation” in the history of the United States, despite several legal challenges against their anti -immigrant hard -line policies.

The United States Department of Defense said earlier this week that it appointed a second section on the border with Mexico as a military zone to enforce immigration laws.

The newest area is located in the American state of Texas and is linked to the base of the Army of Fort Bliss in El Paso.

Like the first area established last month in New Mexico, military personnel are authorized to take the custody of migrants who irregularly cross the border until they are transferred to civil authorities in the United States National Security Department.