CIUDAD JUÁREZ, MEXICO —
Triggered by the effect President Trump's threat of tariffs will soon have, a line of Mexican Army and National Guard vehicles chugged along the border between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, Texas, Wednesday as part of the first of 10,000 troops that Mexico has brought to the northern border.
Masked and armed, the National Guard police searched the underbrush on the outer edge of the wall barrier fence, picking up makeshift ladders and ropes hidden in trenches, and placing them in the truck. Motorcycle patrols were also noticed on other parts of the border, e.g., near Tijuana.
It follows a week of turmoil on the border, triggered by Trump's threat to delay imposing devastating tariffs on Mexico for at least a month. In principle, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Guaranteed that she would deploy the Mexican government's National Guard to help secure the border, and reduce the trade of fentanyl.
Trump has announced a border emergency while migration rates and fentanyl overdose death rates have both gone down over the past year. The United States has promised additional steps to interrupt US weapon flow to MX in order to increase Mexican cartel violence that now extends to other regions of the country as criminal groups try to gain command over the profitable migrant traffic business.
On Tuesday, the opposite of this power went to the streets in border cities, getting off of government aircraft. Wednesday patrols, Guard personnel confirmed their participation in the newly created guard.
"José Luis Santos Iza, one of the National Guard leaders overseeing the deployment in the city, told the media upon the arrival of the first group of soldiers, 'There will be constant surveillance on the border.'"This task is largely focused on interdiction of narcotics coming from Mexico to the U.S.—primarily fentanyl.
Government officials reported that by 1,650 or more were to be placed in Ciudad Juárez, the most U.S. border strengthening sites in the country (second only to the city of Tijuana, with 1,949 to be placed there).
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As seen by the observers, the Sheinbaum sanctioned negotiation was a sort of clever political game played by the new Mexican president Many had doubted whether she could manage Trump's presidency as effectively as her predecessor and ally, former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador"
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