Overview
- The Permanent Commission formally entered the presidency’s requests and sent them to the Senate for analysis, with regular sessions set to resume on January 7.
- The proposal covers 29 U.S. naval special operators—19 Navy SEALs and 10 from the 7th Special Forces Group—for joint instruction only, not operational missions.
- U.S. personnel are slated to arrive armed on a U.S. Air Force C-130 at Toluca on January 12, train in four phases from January 19 to April 15 across Donato Guerra and two Campeche naval sites, and depart April 15.
- A reciprocal request would send Mexican Navy personnel to Camp Shelby, Mississippi, for an exercise from January 18 to March 13, 2026.
- The submission follows recent Mexico–U.S. Security Implementation Group talks focused on fentanyl, illegal arms trafficking, intelligence sharing and countering cross-border threats.