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Donald Trump announced Wednesday sending "armed soldiers" to the southern border after an incident with Mexican soldiers, whom he accuses of being accomplices of drug traffickers, a new verbal escalation in his open war against illegal immigration.

"Mexican soldiers recently armed our soldiers with our National Guard, presumably in a diversionary tactic for drug traffickers on the border … We immediately send armed soldiers to the border," tweeted M Trump.

He accused Mexico of "doing practically nothing" to stop illegal migrants and send them back to their country of origin.

The US president did not say which event he was referring to, but the Pentagon confirmed to AFP in a statement an incident dating back to April 13 near Clint, Texas, where half a dozen Mexican soldiers pointed at two American soldiers who were in an unmarked vehicle, and disarmed one of them.....