10,000 guards deployment on the border and other agreements between Mexico and the US to stop tariffs
These last days one of the greatest commercial tensions between Mexico and the United States was lived. This Monday, the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, and her counterpart Donald Trumpconfirmed that after having reached an agreement 25 percent rates will be paused to all Mexican products.
Among the reasons why Donald Trump signed an executive order so that as of February 4 the tariff began to be applied It is the need to solve the traffic of fentanyl to its territory and stop the transit of illegal migrants, as the US president promised to harden migratory policies for Avoid the entry of foreign people irregularly to the country.
After a phone call that the officials held, both pointed out that to try to solve these problems The Mexican government promised the deployment of 10 thousand elements of the National Guard on the borderwhich will be in charge of curbing the flow of drugs, mainly Fentanyland of foreign people who try to cross illegally to the United States.
This deployment of armed forces responds to Donald Trump’s concerns and pays a period of one month For high -level officials to reach a new agreement, while they are in Pause 25 percent tariffs.
The president of Mexico said at a press conference, that there were instructed to the Secretary of National Defense, Ricardo Trevilla Trejoso that Start with the preparations for the deployment of the National Guard elements to those who had committed. This implies the relocation of the agents and the “in different ways” the areas where they fulfill their security function.
“We are going to have to move elements of some other places towards the border and reinforce in different ways all the areas of the country as we have now,” said Sheinbaum Pardo.
Meanwhile, the president put on the table the fact that organized crime groups have benefited from the trafficking of high -power weapons that come from the United States, which has allowed to match or overcome the arms force of security institutions at the local level. To which he had a favorable response, because Donald Trump promised “to work to avoid arms trafficking to Mexico.”
Although on this last point, the US president does not refer In the statement he published through Social truthplatform of your property. Only, recognizes the pause in tariffs and that meetings between high -level officials will be held to reach an agreement.
“The president of Mexico agreed to immediately send 10,000 Mexican soldiers to the border that separates Mexico from the United States. These soldiers will be specifically designated to stop the flow of fentanyl and illegal immigrants to our country. Besides, We immediately agree to the tariffs during the period of one month during which we will have negotiations”Donald Trump wrote.
In the event that the negotiations had failed, the Mexican government would have implemented Plan B, which consists in apply according to the executive order signed by Donald Trump.
Although in this new panorama, the goal of Mexican officials who participate in negotiations will be to demonstrate that “the competitiveness of the United States economy depends largely on plants and the industrial complex they have in Mexico,” such recognized the Secretary of Economy Marcelo Ebrard.
