Trump tells Mexican president he wants U.S. troops to fight drug cartels

[Eugene]

Source: Los Angeles Times

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s leader said Saturday that she rejected an offer by President Trump to send U.S. troops into her country to fight drug cartels.

Speaking at a public event, President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed a report published Friday in the Wall Street Journal that said that Trump had pressured Mexico to allow more U.S. military involvement in the drug war.

“It’s true,” Sheinbaum said. She said that on “some” private calls with the American leader in recent months, Trump said: “How can we help you fight drug trafficking? I propose that the United States Army enter to help you.”

Sheinbaum said she rebuffed his proposal, saying: “No, President Trump, our territory is inalienable, sovereignty is inalienable ... We can collaborate, we can work together, but with you in your territory and us in ours. We can share information, but we will never accept the presence of the United States Army on our territory.”

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By Kate Linthicum
Staff Writer
May 3, 2025 12:25 PM PT


Read more: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-05-03/trump-wants-to-send-u-s-troops-into-mexico-to-fight-drug-cartels-sheinbaum-says

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Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-tells-mexican-president-wants-192533592.html

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Why does the name Pancho Villa come to mind?

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Sounds like a plan to open the smuggling routes

but maybe that's just my cynical nature and predilection for snide comments.

[tanyev]

2. It's like a 9 year old bully got control of an army and now he wants to use it to do cool stuff.

[Attilatheblond]

3. What he wants is to be a big shot 'war time leader'.

Even if that happens, he will find out he's still the loser he and his mother knew he would always be.

He can run, hide, lie, cheat, mesmerize, and make AI pictures of himself as various heroes, but in his deepest parts, he knows he is still an unlovable loser. The hunger to be more than a LOSER will never be sated. Nothing will fill his emptiness.

And Don junior will be more pissed at him than usual if his drugs become more expensive & difficult to 'import'.

[ReRe]

4. I love Claudia! n/t

[Bristlecone]

5. Smells like Erik Prince wanting to get a contract

[mopinko]

6. he cd stop american made guns from flowing over the border.

that wd help. i hope she made that point.

[Mrsfiddlegirl]

7. It would be a meat grinder.

He has NO real idea what the cartels would do to our troops. Their violence is incomprehensible. Expat living in Jalisco here.

[GP6971]

10. And I would venture to say that the cartels

have a lot of weapons manufactured in the US.

[nwduke]

8. The thin skinned narcissistic manchild

does not like being told no! Especially from a women and a Mexican women being a mysoginist and a racist!

[Nululu]

9. Now we're invading Mexico??!!

I thought he wanted Mexicans out.

[Eugene]

12. invade Mexico, bomb it or even conquer it outright: that proposal depends on which Trumper is speaking at the moment

Homan has inquired about bombing, while Steve Bannon has gone full-on Manifest Destiny.

[Nululu]

13. Total nutbags

[Zorro]

11. He just might order troops in anyway

Wouldn’t surprise me at all.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

14. Pancho Villa is revered in Mexico for that reason...

Keep America IN America.

My Mexican grandfather told me a story of when he was 6, Pancho Villa spent time in his village in the state of Zacatecas. Mexican villagers thought of him as a hero more than a bandit for his stance against American interference in Mexico in the early 20th century. Or so he told me.

[Wonder Why]

15. Private Bonespurs threatening war. Show your DD-214 before you propose any war, Krasnov!