translated from Spanish: 15 thousand guard elements to prevent crossing migrants to US

Mexico deployed some 15,000 soldiers and police on the northern border to meet the commitment made to the U.S. government to curb migration, making arrests even on the edge of the binational border, the army chief reported on Monday Mexican.
“We have a full deployment between the National Guard and army units of nearly 15,000 men in the northern part of the country,” said National Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval during President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s morning conference .
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Expressly asked whether, in addition to intercepting migrants on their way through Mexican territory, the army and the National Guard – made up of military, naval and federal police – were also going to stop them when they tried to cross the border with the United States, Cresencio Sandoval replied “Yes.”
“Considering that migration is not a crime, it is an administrative fault, then we just stop them and make them available to the authorities” of the National Migration Institute, Sandoval abounded.
In the meantime, he stated that on the southern border – with Central America – there are some 6,500 uniforms to prevent the passage of thousands of migrants, mostly from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, who seek to reach the United States fleeing violence, poverty and lack of opportunities.
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Over the weekend, an AFP photographer captured the moment two women and a girl were arrested by heavily armed members of the National Guard as they tried to cross the Rio Bravo, which divides Mexico’s Ciudad Juárez from Us-based El Paso.
For years, Mexican authorities have been operating to capture migrants in the territory, but almost never on the edge of the northern border.
In late May, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on Mexico’s exports if that country did not slow the flow of undocumented immigrants.
On 7 June, the two countries reached an agreement to suspend the application of these levies, which were set for day 10: The United States gave Mexico a 45-day period to take strong action and then another 45 days to assess the results.
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Last week, López Obrador proposed that his first meeting with Trump be in September, when the strategy has paid off.
The recently created deployment of the National Guard, whose purpose was to combat organized crime, has been harshly criticized as they are military personnel who have only been placed with a “GN” badge without having received the preparation that legally must have to intervene in civil matters.
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Original source in Spanish