Mexico pledges to send 10,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to stop asylum seekers, fentanyl

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed Monday to send 10,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in an eleventh-hour bid to avoid Trump's proposed 25% tariffs on goods imported from her country. The Mexican National Guard personnel would be stationed along the border in a purported effort to prevent asylum seekers and fentanyl from entering the United States, according to the White House. For her part, Sheinbaum said the U.S. also agreed to help thwart the trafficking of weapons from its side of the border — although Trump has neglected to mention that part of the deal.