Posted on 05/03/2025 3:31:24 PM PDT by thegagline
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Saturday she declined President Trump’s offer for US troops to crack down on the fentanyl produced by cartels in her country.
The world leaders spoke recently by phone when Trump broached the topic of making American military service members available for operations inside Mexico, where traffickers concoct the deadly synthetic opioid using precursor chemicals imported primarily from China.
“I told him, ‘No, President Trump, our territory is inviolable, our sovereignty is inviolable, our sovereignty is not for sale,'” Sheinbaum revealed during an event. We will never accept the presence of the United States Army in our territory,” she said.
*** Thousands of Mexican and US troops were already deployed to their respective sides of the border in February.
Since January, the Drug Enforcement Administration has seized thousands of kilos of fentanyl, enough to kill more than 119 million Americans***
It remains the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 44, according to the CDC. Sheinbaum did accept an offer on the April 16 call to receive more intelligence from the US, per the report.
Trump was also asked by Mexico to thwart more arms traffickers crossing the border into Mexico.
Decisive actions were taken against organized crime and fentanyl trafficking, as well as bilateral meetings on security and trade,” she said in March as the threat of 25% tariffs from the US against her country loomed. *** “The cartels are waging war on America, and it’s time for America to wage war on the cartels, which we are doing,” Trump said in his first joint address to Congress that month.
“The territory to the immediate south of our border is now dominated entirely by criminal cartels that murder, rape, torture and exercise total control,” he told lawmakers.***
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If the 160,000 rounds of machine gun ammo that 2 Mexicans tried to transport from Utah to Pueblo, CO were for a mass casualty attack by the cartels there and if they carry out that kind of attack, Mexico may learn what “shock and awe” means.
Declare war. It is an awful thing to do, but it may be the only way. The Mexican govt should be given a choice, either you do this with us or against us.
Yes, I’ve seen some of the things the savage cartels do to people in Oregon. They kill women and just dump them out in the country or in the woods, hang people’s pets, cut off hands and fingers for information and scalp people. The non-cartel illegals are very afraid of them and so are cops. They’ve killed two cops that I know of and drove through one night shooting out the window of all police cars.
They really are savage terrorists. I lived next door to a cop who told me they threatened to kill his wife and blow his house up. Oregon is full of them, but they don’t live in the cities.
Family living in El Paso for years. The cartel pays whoever.. whomever.. to be let free to do what they do.
Businesses do well making donations to do well.
Governments ..the same. Biden had a deposit that went to the cartel
He border was opened .. and the cartel said thanks.
I can’t put down all that is reportedly being done with money.. and know,.. money has more power than truth.
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo likely isnt owned by the cartels as much as she has been told that any challange to the cartels puts her life an the lives of all her family members at grave risk.
Exactly. Her country, her rules and her responsibility.
Suppose she counter offered to send Federales to us “to clean out Mexican citizens who are causing troubles for our neighbors in El Norte”
Would Trump ever say “Yes, send your troops!”?
(note that I didn’t ask if obama or biden would...)
Good. Let the cartels run and ruin the country that is basically ruined and run by cartels anyway.
In El Paso, Private airplanes, rented out.. come back with drugs .. or signs it was used for drugs.
“So she didn’t give a real reason, just empty polemic.”
I’d bet she has millions of reasons. Trump should make her an offer she can’t refuse.
Did the CIA murder JFK?
Are you sure?
Are you 4imprint sure?
Yes. Sounds corrupt.
They pay the cartel to be left alone. And hope the cartel accepts.
Anything you tell the mexican army is the same as telling the cartels
She’s as much in charge as Biden was!
Mexico’s president says she declined Trump’s offer for US military crackdown on cartels
Corrected: The cartels declined Trump’s offer for US military crackdown on the cartels
She is owned by the cartels
Probably a good point. I really don’t know. I’m not arguing against you.
I wonder how many of Claudia’s immediate family members los carteles have under constant surveillance for easy abduction and/or murder? I’ll bet it is more than one or two-to assure that she does as she is told or else...
#6 a past president of Mexico fled to Ireland with some $2 billion <— that’s a B
Yeah I think they are being bribed.
Look at the $2 billion that went to Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams. She had about 25 NGO’s she set up from her home. I bet the money was to be laundered to the democrats.
“ I told him, ‘No, President Trump, our territory is inviolable, our sovereignty is inviolable, our sovereignty is not for sale,’”
Apparently it is because the caretls have free reign.
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