President Claudia Sheinbaum said that she had a “fruitful” meeting with the American secretary for internal security Kristi Noem on Friday, but the American official said that “there was still a lot of work to do” to stop the flow of drugs and migrants through the Mexican border.
Sheinbaum and Noem met at the National Palace in Mexico City at the end of the first international trip of the Homeland Security Secretary since she assumed her position in late January. The former governor of southern Dakota also visited El Salvador and Colombia during a three -day Latin American trip to discuss immigration, crime and deportation with presidents and other senior officials.
We received the US national security secretary, Kristi Noem at the National Palace, with whom we had a profitable meeting for the benefit of Mexico and the United States. Our countries maintain a good relationship in the context of respect for … pic.twitter.com/juwa3uz18m
– Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (@Claudiashein) March 29, 2025
Sheinbaum said on social networks that she and other Mexican officials, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Juan Ramón de la Fuente, had “a fruitful meeting” with Noem “for the benefit of Mexico and the United States”.
“Our countries maintain a good relationship in the context of respect for our sovereignors,” she wrote.
Kristi Noem noted on social networks that she had met Sheinbaum “to discuss the role of Mexico in securing the American-mexic border”.
“The deployment by Mexico of the troops of the National Guard on the border and the acceptance of expulsion flights is a positive step, but there is still a lot of work to do to stop the flow of illegal drugs and immigrants in our country,” she wrote.
“Our partnership will help make America and the Central America region safe again,” added Noem.
His meeting with Sheinbaum occurred almost two months after the Mexican president agreed to deploy 10,000 national guard troops on the northern border as part of An agreement she concluded with American President Donald Trump This avoided the American coverage prices on Mexican products for a month.
Asset imposed 25% on all imports in Mexico and Canada on March 4 Because of what the White House said, it was the failure of the two countries to take adequate measures against “the influx of fatal drugs” in the United States, but it raised the tasks on the goods covered by the USMCA free trade pact two days later.
After a call of March 6 with Trump in which she obtained this concession, Sheinbaum said that Mexico and the United States “would continue to work together, in particular on matters of migration and security, in particular the reduction of the illegal crossing of fentanyl in the United States and weapons to Mexico.”
“… Mexico will not be required to pay prices on all USMCA products. This agreement is until April 2, when the United States will announce reciprocal rates for all countries,” she wrote on social networks.
Sheinbaum later told journalists that during her call with Trump, she presented data on customs and border protection (CBP) on fentanyl crises on the Mexican border.
She pointed out that fentanyl attacks on the border – which can be used as a proxy to estimate whether the amount of the opioid entering the United States rises or decreases – decreased by more than 40% in February.
The border by figures
Illegal immigration
CBP meetings with migrants who have entered the United States between the entrance ports started to refuse After former American president Joe Biden promulgated a new border policy last June.
The sharp drop in meetings between January and February indicates that Trump policies to guarantee the border – helped by Mexico deployment of 10,000 national guard troops in the north of the country in early February – Work.
Drugs
- CBP data shows that the amount of drugs entered on the southern border of the United States increased by 1.9% in February compared to January to reach 14,679 pounds (6,658 kilograms).
- Compared to February 2024, the quantity of drugs confiscated at the southern border decreased by 31.5%.
- The American authorities seized 590 pounds (267 kilograms) of fentanyl on the Mexican border in February, a drop of 40.4% compared to January.
- Compared to February 2024, the quantity of fentanyl seized on the border decreased by 51.9%.
At the beginning of March, Sheinbaum awarded the decline in the quantity of fentanyl seized on the border to the increase in confiscations of the powerful synthetic opioid in Mexico.
Last Tuesday, Minister of Security Omar García Harfuch said the authorities have seized “1,347 kilos of fentanyl and more than 2 million fentanyl pillsSince the federal government took office on October 1.
He said that a total of 134.7 tonnes of drugs had been seized in Mexico since Sheinbaum was sworn in as president.
In addition to going up the application against manufacturing and trafficking in drugs and taking measures to secure the borders of northern and southern Mexico, the Mexican government Extradition 29 Best figures in the cartel in the United States at the end of February. The US government appointed six Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations in February.
Sheinbaum has repeatedly said that his government was willing to cooperate with the Trump administration on security issues, but stressed that Mexico will not accept any violation of its sovereignty, as unilateral American military action on Mexican soil.
With reports from Make an efe And AP
