CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico – When Mexico’s president offered to send 10,000 troops to the U.S. border, it was an easy response to President Donald Trump’s tariff threats.
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo has more than 280,000 military troops at her disposal, deployed around Mexico handling matters of public security, including drug trafficking and illegal migration – Trump’s two big asks.
When Trump ordered a 25% tariff to take effect Tuesday if Mexico didn’t do something, Sheinbaum Pardo, a climate scientist, kept “a cool head,” she said – a personal mantra. She had her predecessor’s playbook, too: Sending in the National Guard had worked with Trump before.
Already, more than 32,000 National Guard troops were deployed in immigration enforcement at Mexico’s northern and southern borders. Sheinbaum Pardo made an offer: to shift 3.5% of her troops to the northern border to do essentially what they were already doing.
More than 9,000 Army and National Guard troops were stationed at the northern border during the first half of last year, said Samuel Storr, a researcher with the Iberoamericana University’s Citizen Security Program in Mexico City, which obtained deployment statistics through information requests.
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