Mexican soldiers disarmed the US Army in Texas: Trump responded with troops

Two US soldiers in a remote area of ​​Texas were confronted by Mexican soldiers who thought they had entered Mexico, the US authorities have been informed.

According to reports, Mexican troops They took the gun to one of the American soldiers.

The US Northern Command, which administers military support from the Customs and Border Protection Bureau (CBP), said US soldiers were in a CBP vehicle near Clint, Texas.

The incident occurred April 13th and was first reported by Newsweek, who pointed out that one of the Mexican soldiers had removed the service gun from the American hip holster and threw it into the vehicle.

The North Command statement sent Tuesday to The badociated press he indicates that, according to the investigation of the Ministry of Defense and the CBP, the Mexican army thought to be in Mexican territory at the time of the confrontation. The incident occurred on US territory located south of the border fence, but north of the border.

"After a brief discussion between the soldiers of both countries, the Mexican army has left the region"explained North Command. "Immediately, US soldiers contacted the CPB, who responded as quickly as possible.

Throughout the incident, US soldiers followed established procedures and protocols. He added that an investigation had already been opened and that the presence of US troops at the border was due to the measures taken by the government of President Donald Trump for the number of illegal border crossings.

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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, raised this incident Wednesday morning with a message on his Twitter account.

"Soldiers from Mexico recently pulled out their weapons in front of our National Guard soldiers, probably as a diversionary tactic for border drug traffickers."said the president.

"Better not to come back! We are now sending ARMED SOLDIERS to the border, Mexico is not enough to apprehend and come back!", he added, referring to the caravans of migrants and traffickers of people on the Mexican side.

Asked about the incident between the armed forces and the message from the Secretary of the Interior, Donald Trump, Olga Sánchez Cordero, said he did not have the elements to make an badessment.

"I do not have more items, I can not pronounce"Sanchez Cordero, Secretary of the Interior, reacted on Wednesday over Trump's insinuations that Mexican soldiers could "distract" the US National Guard in favor of drug traffickers.

On the decision to send armed soldiers to the border, Sánchez Cordero said: "It's his country and he makes decisions unilaterally."

Trump also warned that the Coyotes (human traffickers) are dangerous armed criminals, so he justified the sending of troops.

"A very large caravan of more than 20,000 people has started in Mexico, Mexico has reduced its size, but it is still coming in. Mexico has to stop the others, otherwise we will have to close this section of the border. Call the army. "

A video of CBP in Arizona It showed traffickers of people with AK-47 rifles entering the border through a mother and son, who had been arrested shortly thereafter.

Mexico has denounced the fact that many of the caravans of migrants arriving at the border are favored by gangs of traffickers of people commonly known as "polleros".

Marcelo Ebrad, The Mexican Foreign Minister said yesterday that he had not engaged in dialogue with his counterparts about the military incident, although he badured them that they communicate constantly on all current issues concerning the disturbed border.

For his part, the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, insisted with his usual caution when approaching the subject and the tense relationship with the United States.

"We will not be provoked, I tell President Donald Trump that we We want to maintain respectful and friendly relations with your government, we will badyze this incident, we will take into account what it says. and it will act in accordance with the law as part of our sovereignty, but the most important thing is to say that we will not fight the United States government. The most important thing is to want a relationship of mutual respect and cooperation and, as we have understood for several months, we will continue to act to maintain cordial and good-neighborly relations with the government and the people of Canada. United States, "he said at his morning press conference.

"I saw it first (tweet), I did not see it, but because of what I read we will consider the case, we will take into account what it raises and to badure it that there will always be a responsible and respectful attitude on our part"He concluded.

On Wednesday at noon, the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave its version of what happened, through a press release.

"On April 13, 2019, at the height of Colonia Parcelas, Ciudad Juárez, a group of Mexican soldiers met two American soldiers. they carried out support operations in an unmarked vehicle south of the border fence in the United States., in an area where the boundaries of the border are unclear due to its geography. After the corresponding investigation, it was determined that the army vehicle of this country had been placed north of the border fence to avoid confusion. "

This is not the first time that armed clashes led by the authorities are taking place on the US-Mexico border. In 2012, for example, the Border Patrol Officer, Lonnie Swartz, on the American side, killed Mexican José Antonio Elena Rodríguez.

The case was brought to court and nearly six years after the facts, Swartz was found not guilty.