US President Donald Trump and his candidate for Mexico Ambassador Ronald Johnson both congratulated the Mexican government on Tuesday for increasing the fight against illegal drug trafficking in the United States and the northern migrant flow.
Trump met a number of his choices for embassy posts Around the world in Washington, DC, Tuesday.
Ron Johnson, American ambassador to our country, said that he had been encouraged by conversations with the president @Claudiashein And thanked her for her border support.
Donald Trump stressed that Mexico had intensified the measures.
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Johnson – An army veteran and former CIA official who was a ambassador to Salvador during Trump’s first mandate as president – thanked the American president “for the appointment to represent you, you and the United States, in the United States.
“And I am really encouraged by some of the conversations you have had with the president (Claudia) Sheinbaum recently, and … the increase in the support we have seen from his government along our border,” he added.
“They have intensified a lot, Mexico and Canada, so see how it works, right?” Trump replied.
The American president spoke in Sheinbaum earlier this month and thereafter 25% suspended prices on imports from Mexico which meet the requirements of the USMCA free trade pact.
Trump said he had made the decision “as a hosting and out of respect for President Sheinbaum”.
“Our relationship was very good, and we work hard, together, on the border, both to prevent illegal foreigners from entering the United States and, in the same way, from stopping fentanyl,” he wrote on social networks on March 6.
Asset imposed prices of 25% on all imports from Mexico and most imports in Canada on March 4 Because of what the White House said that not adequately stem the flow of “deadly drugs” like fentanyl in the United States
During its March 6 call with Trump, Sheinbaum said that it stressed that fentanyl attacks on the border – which may be used as a proxy indicator to estimate whether the amount of opioid entering the United States rises or decreased – decreased by 41.5% in February compared to January.
Sheinbaum said Trump was not aware of this statistic and had attributed it to the increase in fentanyl attacks in Mexico. The number of migrants detected by the American authorities illegally crossing the Mexican border significantly fell Since the new US government took office on January 20.
The Mexican government is currently While waiting to see if the United States will impose additional prices on Mexican products Next week. The Trump administration is plans to impose at least a few reciprocal prices On imports from the United States’s business partners on April 2.
As for Johnson, he awaits the ratification of the American Senate in order to go to Mexico to start his new position as ambassador.
During a hearing in the Senate earlier this month, Johnson said that the US military could unilaterally take action against mexican soil cards If the life of American citizens was in danger.
Sheinbaum quickly postponed the declaration.
Sheinbaum: The United States sees that Mexico’s safety strategy is working
On Wednesday morning, a journalist questioned Sheinbaum on the remarks that Johnson made Tuesday in the presence of President Trump.
In response, she described The four pillars of the security strategy of his governmentnamely to address the deep causes of crime; strengthen the National Guard; improve intelligence and investigation practices; And improve the coordination of the federal government with other authorities.
“This strategy is what allowed us to obtain the results we presented yesterday,” she said, referring to a reduction in the homicide rate since she took office, the seizure of more than 134 tonnes of drugs in the last six months and the arrest of almost 16,000 people for high impact crimes such as murder.
García Harfuch presents 4 national security strategy pillars
Sheinbaum stressed that Preliminary data shows that Mexico recorded 19 less homicides per day this month compared to September 2024, the last month of the presidency on six years of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“Nineteen homicides a day,” she reiterated.
“Of course, the United States comes this. What do we do with this strategy? Avoid these fentanyl crossings (in the United States) … for humanitarian reasons and because of the collaboration and the coordination we have with the United States,” said Sheinbaum.
“… I guess that’s what the ambassador sees,” she said.
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