U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum put their planned tariffs on hold Monday for a month to give time for further negotiations, and Mexico said it planned to deploy 10,000 members of its national guard to address drug trafficking.
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00:00We were talking about issues of common interest.
00:06I told him that we had been working together in migration,
00:14that we had always been successful based on protection and respect for human rights.
00:23We talked about his interest, as well as ours,
00:29in reducing fentanyl trafficking from Mexico to the United States,
00:37and other drugs, not just fentanyl.
00:42He made several proposals,
00:45and finally we reached an agreement
00:52to put more national guards on the northern border
00:57to protect the border and avoid drug trafficking,
01:00and in particular fentanyl trafficking from Mexico to the United States.
01:05I always told him that we wanted him to put the tariffs on drugs on hold
01:10from the first moment.
01:15In this case, we reached an agreement,
01:18but I also explained the seriousness of the number of high-powered weapons
01:26that enter Mexico from the United States,
01:29and that these high-powered weapons, which arrive illegally,
01:33arm criminal groups and give them firepower.
01:40We also asked him to help the United States,
01:45our country, to avoid the trafficking of weapons from the United States to Mexico.
01:51He agreed.