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Sarukhán: No US Troops in Mexico
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March 23, 2010
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Mexico City – The Mexican Ambassador to the United States, Arturo Sarukhán Casamitjana, denied on Monday that there are U.S. troops in Mexican territory as result of the high levels of violence on the Mexico-U.S. border.
During a T.V. interview, the ambassador said that the incursion of U.S. troops into Mexico is impossible because the United States is forbidden to interfere with the implementation of the law in Mexico.
“The request was made by some members of a conservative group in that nation to dispatch the National Guard,” he stated on the T.V. show “Primero Noticias.”
Sarukhán described those groups as irresponsible because their request is merely the result of state or local electoral strategies in view of the upcoming elections in November in the United States.
The Mexican diplomat stated that some U.S. politicians, very carelessly, have used the matter of violence on the border in order to prove that they are strong supporters of the battle against organized crime.
In regards to the events of March 19, when 3 people connected to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, were killed, Ambassador Sarukhán said that Mexican authorities are the ones in charge of carrying out investigations on this matter and not the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The Mexican ambassador said, “There is only cooperation, support, and information exchange with U.S. authorities, with whom we collaborate every day.” He stated that the FBI personnel participate by assisting Mexican authorities in their line of investigation.
According to preliminary results of that investigation, “it is not entirely clear that these people were the intended targets just because they are directly connected to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juárez, but we will have to wait for the final result of the investigation,” he reported.
Regarding migratory reform, Ambassador Sarukhán believes that everything will depend on whether the U.S. Senate begins debating it soon, because that is when the process will begin. The government official said that if the Senate begins debating it “between now and May, there will be possibilities that the Senate will approve an initiative,” but due to the upcoming elections, it is possible that the chamber will postpone the voting-discussion process until after the elections in November.
As for the second meeting of the High Level Group between Mexico and the United States, which will take place today, he said that the cooperation between the countries and the progress in the battle against drug trafficking will be addressed.
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