Two US soldiers were questioned by Mexican troops earlier this month while conducting a surveillance operation on the US side of the southern border, two US defense officials tell CNN
"On April 13, 2019, at approximately 2 p.m. CDT, five to six Mexican military personnel questioned two U.S. Army soldiers who were conducting border support operations in an unmarked vehicle near the southwest border in the vicinity of Clint, Texas," US Northern Command told CNN in a statement."The US soldiers were appropriately in US territory" during the encounter, the statement added.
"An inquiry by and revealed that the Mexican military members believed that the US Army soldiers were south of the border," Northern Command said while adding that the US troops were north of the border."Though they were south of the border fence, US soldiers remained in US territory, north of the actual border," the statement said, adding that"after a brief discussion between the soldiers from the two nations, the Mexican military members departed the area.
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