On February 4, President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 soldiers to the United States border in exchange for her American counterpart Donald Trump will not increase tariffs for a month.
The Federal Government announced that 2,700 Army members would be deployed in Tijuana, Tecate and Mexicali, Baja California; San Luis Río Colorado and Nogales, in Sonora; Juárez Ciudad, Chihuahua; Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa and Matamoros, in Tamaulipas.
Other 7,300 members of the National Guard will be distributed in Agua Prieta and Sonoyta, Sonora; Negras Piedras and Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila; Ojinaga, Puerto Palomas, Chihuahua; Colombia, Nuevo León; Baghdad Beach and Ciudad Mier, in Tamaulipas.
The first contingent, with 120 soldiers, arrived at the border of the state of Chihuahua the same morning that the agreement between the two countries was negotiated and monitored the area of the Bravo River board.
The next day, 360 military from Yucatán, 600 from Campeche, 300 of Quintana Roo, 189 of Puebla, 160 of Sonora and 450 of other states in the center of the country took off the northern border.
They have long -range rifles, machine guns, drones, armored vehicles and helicopters to reinforce the border safety.
Another group of military arrived by land in Tamaulipas and Coahuila to monitor the Rio Bravo area. They have also arrived in Anahuac and Colombia, Nuevo León.
After the deployment, the Federal Security Gabiete reported on Friday, February 7 that, immediately, 116 people had been arrested thanks to the “Border Operation” and 35 firearms had been seized, in addition to several doses of different drugs and money Indeed in six border states.
