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2026-10-05 · Aljazeera

Mexico seeks evidence of border shooting that prompted US troop deployment

Mexico has asked the United States for evidence of a cross-border shooting that allegedly targeted US security personnel. In her daily news conference on Monday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum explained that the US had reported “shots from the Mexican border”. “We asked for all the evidence because we have no evidence,” Sheinbaum said. She added that Mexico’s National Guard, Army and Navy had not detected any shots being fired from Mexican territory towards the US. Sheinbaum made her remarks a day after the US Ambassador to Mexico Ronald Johnson wrote on the social media platform X about the shooting, which allegedly took place in Texas across from the Mexican state of Tamaulipas in late September.

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