Trump blasts Mexico's Sheinbaum for rejecting offer to send US troops into Mexico to fight cartels

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump connected Sunday said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected his connection to nonstop U.S. troops to Mexico to assistance thwart the amerciable cause commercialized due to the fact that she is fearful of the country's almighty cartels

The comments by Trump came a time aft Sheinbaum confirmed that Trump pressed her successful a telephone past period to judge a bigger relation for the U.S. subject successful combating cause cartels successful Mexico.

Trump said it was “true” that helium projected sending the troops to Mexico and lashed into Sheinbaum for dismissing the idea.

“Well she's truthful acrophobic of the cartels she can’t walk, truthful you cognize that’s the reason," Trump said successful comments to reporters aboard Air Force One connected Sunday. "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.”

The U.S. subject beingness on the confederate borderline with Mexico has accrued steadily successful caller months, pursuing Trump’s bid successful January to summation the army’s relation successful stemming the travel of migrants.

The U.S. Northern Command has surged troops and instrumentality to the border, accrued manned surveillance flights to show fentanyl trafficking on the borderline and sought expanded authorization for U.S. Special Forces to enactment intimately with Mexican forces conducting operations against cartels.

But Sheinbaum said that U.S. troops operating wrong Mexico was going excessively far.

“We tin enactment together, but you successful your territory and america successful ours,” Sheinbaum said she told Trump.

Trump successful February designated arsenic “foreign violent organizations” galore gangs and cartels smuggling drugs into the U.S. , restricting their movements and lending instrumentality enforcement much resources to enactment against them.

But Sheinbaum’s stance — and Trump's effect — suggest that U.S. unit for unilateral subject involution could make hostility betwixt the 2 leaders after cooperation connected migration and commercialized successful the aboriginal going of Trump's 2nd term.

Trump said the U.S. subject is needed to stem the scourge of fentanyl successful the United States.

“They are atrocious news,” Trump said of 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.”

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