MEXICO CITY — The United States and Mexico have deployed hundreds of troops to a border area where U.S. officials said members of the U.S. Coast Guard came under fire.
They did not say who had fired the shots.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday demanded evidence of any cross-border gunfire, mentioned a day earlier in a post on X from the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Ronald Johnson.
Mexican armed forces did not detect any gunfire fired from Mexico over the border, Sheinbaum said in her morning news briefing. Nonetheless, “in order to avoid such situations,” both countries decided to carry out “mirror operations” with troop deployments on both sides of the border, she said.
The operation began on Sunday along the border between Tamaulipas state and Texas, with 500 Mexican army and national guard personnel deployed with the support of helicopters, drones and anti-drone equipment, according to Mexico’s defense ministry.
The U.S. military did not respond immediately to questions about the reported shots.
Dan Lamothe contributed to this report.
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