The Mexican President rejects Trump's offer from US troops to help combat drug cartels

The Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum publicly confirmed that she rejected President Donald Trump's US military aid, who wanted to help the country to combat drug trafficking and violent cartels.

In response to a report by Wall Street Journal on Friday, in which the offer was detailed, Sheinbaum confirmed: “It is true”.

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She said Trump that the country would “never accept” the presence of the US Army in her territory.

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“No, President Trump, our territory is inalienable, sovereignty is inalienable,” said Sheinbaum. “We can work together. We can work together, but with you in your territory and us in our. We can share information, but we will never accept the presence of the US Army on our territory.”

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In a written statement on Fox News Digital Saturday, the deputy spokesman for the White House, Anna Kelly, emphasized coordinated efforts with Mexico to achieve border security.

“President Trump worked with President Sheinbaum to bring the cooperation of border security with Mexico to the highest level,” wrote Kelly. “This robust cooperation and information exchange provides tangible results, including the removal of numerous cartel drivers to the United States, to put justice and create the safest border in history.”

A group of participants was in the crowd when Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke publicly about the exchange with President Donald Trump. (AP picture)

Since taking office, Trump has continued to use CIA drones to carry out surveillance flights through the country in coordination with the Mexican government.

He also formally called drug cartels “foreign terrorists” groups.

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However, Kelly said that Mexico had to do more to protect the Americans from dangerous foreign terrorist organizations, and “the drugs and violence that they flood in communities on both sides of the border”.

“We will continue to investigate opportunities to improve our efforts in the region to reduce these transnational criminal organizations,” she wrote. “We will make America safe again.”

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that the US Army was not welcome in Mexico. (AP picture)

The Heritage Foundation, a top conservative group, published a report in January in which Trump could use the military to face the border crisis.

It was argued that Mexican cartels continue to grow, accelerated illegal immigration and smuggling from narcotics and that the security cooperation in the USA-Mexico has deteriorated.

In the report, however, it was found that direct military measures against cartels should be a “last way out”, which preferred joint military promotions with Mexican coordination, Fox News Digital previously reported.

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“In a reasonable context, one -sided US military measures can be used to disturb the cartel activity and immediate cooperation of a resistant Mexican government,” wrote the group.

The foundation claimed that despite the escalating threat from cartels, Mexico would not change its attitude when Sheinbaum was chosen.

Adam Shaw from Fox News Digital and the Associated Press contributed to this report.