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| Mexico pledges 6K troops to help combat illegal immigration amid heightened pressure from U.S. |
| 2019-06-20 |
| [OANN] Mexico is planning to deploy thousands of troops to its southern border amid heightened pressure from the Trump administration to crack down on the Central American migrant crisis. According to Mexican officials Monday, the country has already sent over 400 military personnel to the town of Tapachula near its border with Guatemala this past week. "Since Saturday 426 soldiers from the National Guard have arrived in Tapachula," announced Maximilano Reyes, Mexican Undersecretary of State for Latin America and the Caribbean. "President Obrador and the Foreign Minister have said that 6,000 will be sent in total, but that does not mean that all 6,000 are going to disembark here." This comes after Mexico pledged earlier this month to ramp up its efforts to stop the flow of South American |
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