Trump confirmed on Sunday that he had suggested sending US troops to Mexico to combat drug trafficking, a day after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum declared that her country’s sovereignty was “not for sale.”
We would be honored to enter Mexico and offer assistance if Mexico needed it for the cartels. Trump told the reporters on Air Force One, “I told her that.”
“It would be a great honor for me to enter and participate. Our nation is being attempted by the cartels.
Trump claimed that Sheinbaum had turned down the offer because she is “so afraid of the cartels, she can’t walk” when questioned about his disappointment with Sheinbaum’s decision.
She is a lovely woman, in my opinion. Trump said without providing any proof that his assertion was false. “The president of Mexico is a lovely woman, but she is so afraid of the cartels that she can’t even think straight.
Sheinbaum stated in a statement to a crowd at a press conference on Saturday that she had told the US president that Mexico would never consent to having US troops stationed there.
Our territory is inviolable, our sovereignty is inviolable, and our sovereignty is not for sale, she said.
Sheinbaum made her remarks after The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration was pressuring her government to allow “deeper US military involvement” in the fight against Mexican drug cartels, citing unnamed sources.
Trump has frequently alleged that Mexico is failing to stop the flow of fentanyl and other illegal drugs across the southern border of the US.
In one of his opening salvoes, Trump announced in February that he would impose universal tariffs of 25% on Mexico and Canada because they failed to stop the flow of illegal immigrants and undocumented immigrants.
Source: Aljazeera
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