Mexico asked the United States for “respect” in the face of the military deployment at the border From both countries announced by Washington, President Claudia Sheinbaum reported Wednesday.
The president said that, although “there is dialogue” with the Trump administration, a “diplomatic note” has also been sent to her government on the subject, reported an office of the French agency AFP.
“It is their decision, autonomous, in their own territory, but that we would expect not to transfer the border and continue to be the same collaboration that has so far had in security matters,” he said.
“We do not know if it is to continue building the wall or what would be the goal. But anyway what we ask is always respect and coordination“, Commented the Mexican president, referring to the wall Trump ordered to build during his first term in certain sectors of the 3 thousand 100 kilometers of shared border.
Military at the border corridor Reserva Roosevelt
The United States announced Tuesday that it will deploy military for three years On an area of 443 square kilometers of the state of New Mexico, border with Mexico.
The corridor, known as the Roosevelt Reserve, is a federal zone 18.2 meters wide that extends along the border from New Mexico to California, except where lands of native peoples or private property are located.
It had been administered by the Department of Interior until Trump ordered the control to be transferred to the Department of Defense in a presidential memorandum published last Friday.
The mission will serve to increase patrols in the area and build “infrastructure to prevent” irregular migration And drug transfer, said US Secretary of Interior, Doug Burgum, in a statement.
The objective is the installation of “border barriers and the site of detection and surveillance equipment”, according to a memorandum published by the White House.
Trump heats the scene
“Our southern border is under attack,” said President Trump in a statement on April 11 in which he announced a “military mission to seal the southern border and repel invasions.”
“The complexity of the current situation requires that our army take a more direct role in ensuring our southern border than in the recent past,” added the republican leader.
In March, The United States also deployed two missile destroying shipsone in the Gulf of Mexico and another in its west coast to support border security tasks
For its part and since last February, Mexico deployed 10,000 soldiers throughout the border area with the United States as part of the negotiations with President Donald Trump to avoid 25% tariffs on Mexican exports.
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Time consecrates the Mexican president
After the magazine Time It would include it in the list of the most influential people of 2025, President Claudia Sheinbaum said it is a recognition of the people of Mexico.
“I always say it, there are those who get obnubila with these things and not, you have to always have their feet on the ground and assume that if one does a job that is up to the people of Mexico, because it is the best there is, it is thanks to this link we have with our movement, with history and with the people. Do not betray and always be honest,” said the president during her daily press conference.
The magazine Time It included the president, Claudia Sheinbaum, as one of the most influential people of 2025 in the leaderssaid a report on Wednesday newspaper Mexican The day.
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– Time (@time) April 16, 2025
The American media commented that he likes to call her president, with “A” at the end, and said he faces two challenges: “The violence fed by drug traffickers and expansionist instincts of President Donald Trump, which imposed tariffs on Mexico by citing drug trafficking and immigrants on the border.”
The profile made in the magazine, founded in New York in 1923, indicated that the president “describes herself as a leader with a serene leadership style, and her focus on cross -border negotiations seems to have won respect, although reluctantly, of her American counterpart.”
