Trump considered military raids in Mexico against drug cartels

(ANSA) - NEW YORK, OCTOBER 19 - Mark Esper, the head of Donald Trump's Pentagon, drastically rejected the idea of ​​sending 250,000 soldiers to the Mexican border feared by the tycoon's adviser Stephen Miller, the face of the hard line on immigration of the former administration.

    The New York Times reports it citing some sources, according to which the idea was never explicitly submitted to the former president who, in return, wanted to conduct military raids in Mexico against drug cartels, with actions similar to those conducted to hunt and kill. terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Trump then dismissed the idea once he realized that many would read in his gesture a war act against an ally.

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