Sheinbaum presented the troop deployment as part of a new agreement with Trump to address security and trade concerns between the U.S. and Mexico.
Troops have already begun to move following Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Feb. 3 announcement that her country will deploy about 10,000 National Guard troops to Mexico’s shared border with the United States, to help stem cross-border smuggling and narcotics-trafficking operations.
By the morning of Feb. 4, Mexico’s Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA) had shared a video on social media of Mexican troops and military vehicles gathering at a staging area. A couple of hours later, SEDENA shared further footage of a military convoy—including Humvees, light-armored pickup trucks, and larger troop transport trucks—rolling out from the rallying point.
More than 100 Mexican National Guard troops were also observed boarding a flight from the southeastern Mexican city of Merida on the morning of Feb. 4, bound for the northern border city of Juárez, which sits opposite El Paso, Texas. Additional units were scheduled to depart Cancún and Campeche, while still other troops were expected to travel north by road.
In a Feb. 3 post on social media platform X, Sheinbaum presented the troop deployment as part of a new