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President Donald Trump said Sunday that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected his connection to nonstop U.S. troops to Mexico to assistance combat against cartels due to the fact that she is acrophobic of them.
Speaking to reporters connected Air Force One, Trump said helium floated the thought of sending American troops to woody with the Mexican cartels facilitating cause trafficking, and criticized Sheinbaum for refusing his offer.
"She's truthful acrophobic of the cartels she can’t locomotion … And I deliberation she’s a beauteous woman. The president of Mexico is simply a beauteous woman, but she is truthful acrophobic of the cartels that she can’t adjacent deliberation straight," Trump said.
His absorption came aft Sheinbaum confirmed that Trump pressured her successful a telephone past period to let the U.S. subject to play a larger relation successful tackling cause cartels successful Mexico.
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President Donald Trump said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected his connection to nonstop U.S. troops to Mexico to assistance combat the country's cartels due to the fact that she is acrophobic of them. (AP)
Sheinbaum said she told Trump astatine the clip that Mexico would "never accept" a U.S. subject presence.
"No, President Trump, our territory is inalienable, sovereignty is inalienable," Sheinbaum claimed to person said. "We tin collaborate. We tin enactment together, but with you successful your territory and america successful ours. We tin stock information, but we volition ne'er judge the beingness of the United States Army connected our territory."
There has been a larger American subject beingness astatine the U.S.-Mexico borderline aft Trump issued an bid successful January to summation the army’s relation successful slowing the travel of amerciable immigrants into the U.S.
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President Donald Trump earlier talking with reporters connected Air Force One connected his mode backmost to Washington connected Sunday from West Palm Beach, Florida. (AP)
In summation to warring amerciable immigration, Trump said American troops are needed to dilatory the magnitude of fentanyl being brought into the U.S. by cause cartels.
"They are atrocious news," Trump said Sunday, referring to the cartels. "If Mexico wanted assistance with the cartels, we would beryllium honored to spell successful and bash it. I told her that I would beryllium honored to spell successful and bash it. The cartels are trying to destruct our country. They're evil."
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum told Trump astatine the clip that Mexico would "never accept" a U.S. subject presence. (AP Images)
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U.S. Northern Command has deployed troops and instrumentality to the confederate border, accrued manned surveillance flights to show fentanyl trafficking on the borderline and requested expanded authorization for U.S. Special Forces to enactment intimately with Mexican forces conducting operations against cartels.
In February, Trump designated galore gangs and cartels smuggling drugs into the U.S. arsenic "foreign violent organizations," giving instrumentality enforcement much resources to instrumentality enactment against the groups.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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