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A United States general has announced that there are currently around 5,000 active service soldiers along the southern border of the country with Mexico, as part of President Donald Trump’s general impulse to take energetic measures against immigration.
General Gregory Guillot, head of the Northern US Command. Uu. He told the legislators on Thursday that he expects that number to increase even more.
He also revealed that the military has increased their activities in the mastery of cross -border intelligence, surveillance and recognition (ISR). Drug posters were the main objective.
“We have also increased some unique military capabilities that will obtain later … the posters, which are promoting illegal migration,” Guillot said. “That is mainly through ISR in the air to obtain more information about them and discover how we can counteract their actions.”
The presence of thousands of American soldiers along the border with Mexico fulfills a campaign promise made by President Donald Trump to declare a “national emergency” on the border of the southern United States.
On January 20, the first day of his second term, Trump signed a Executive order That ordered military leaders to send “so many units or members of the Armed Forces” as necessary for the border, to obtain the “complete operational control” of the area.
He also asked the Secretary of Transportation of the United States to renounce restrictions on “unmanned air systems” in eight kilometers (five miles) of the border.
During his time as a politician, Trump has inclined to the Nativist rhetoric that he frames undocumented immigration as an “invasion” and the people involved as “criminals.” Closing the border to irregular crosses has been a cornerstone of its campaign for re -election, as well as the launch of a “mass deportation” campaign.
Trump has also exerted pressure on his country’s neighbors to restrict undocumented immigration, even through the use of tariffs.
In November, before assuming the position, Trump announced that he planned to impose 25 percent tariff Shared with us.
After having sworn, Trump continued with his promise, announcing that the rates would take effect in early February.
But both Canada and Mexico negotiated with Trump to postpone rates in exchange for concessions.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, for example, sent 10,000 members of the National Guard of her country to the border with the United States on behalf of the fight against drug trafficking and irregular migration.
The United States and Mexico have collaborated for a long time on efforts to take energetic measures against migration, which critics say that it often occurs at the expense of human rights.
After all, not all irregular migration is illegal. American and American law protects the rights of asylum seekers to flee through borders to escape persecution.
Critics have also been alarmed at the potential for US military action against the posters of Mexico.
During the first hours of his second term, Trump signed another Executive order Appoint posters as “foreign terrorist organizations”, calling them a “unacceptable national security risk for the United States.”
In later days, Trump’s “border tsar”, Tom Homan, told ABC News that there could be clashes between the increase in US troops and posters.
“I hope violence increases? Absolutely, because the posters are earning record amounts of money, ”said Homan.
Other Republican officials, including the Governor of Florida, Ron Desantis, have also expressed support for military attacks in Mexican posters.
But the Mexican government has seen that rhetoric with great alarm, and maintains any attack of this type would represent a severe violation of the sovereignty of its country.
However, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum did not express alarm for military surveillance flights in the United States, since they were currently taking place on US soil. He went to the issue at a morning press conference on Thursday, before Guillot offered him his testimony in the United States.
“This is not the first time that there have been flights of this type, it is not out of nowhere,” said Sheinbaum.
“Will we ask for an explanation? Yes, but as part of our coordination with them. “
Meanwhile, when US legislators asked him if he would require the presence of a group of attorne strike near Mexico, Guillot said he would need “a significant increase in maritime presence in cooperation with the Coast Guard.”
