The deployment includes an unspecified number of Mexican army soldiers and National Guard troops going to Juárez and the Chihuahua-state border towns of Ojinaga, across from Presidio, Texas, and Palomas, across from Columbus, New Mexico, reported La Verdad Juárez news site.

President Claudia Sheinbaum’s government said the National Guard members had redeployed to 18 cities and towns along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a deal to delay U.S. tariffs.

President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 National Guard troops to Mexico’s northern border to help stop the smuggling of deadly fentanyl to the U.S. in exchange for the U.S. 's delaying 25% tariffs on Mexico.