UNITED STATES/MEXICO: In order to combat global drug trafficking, US President Joe Biden issued an executive order permitting active duty reserve troops to be called up as needed.
US President Joe Biden signed an executive order authorising reserve troops to serve on active duty in the battle against worldwide drug trafficking. Alejandro Mayorkas and Antony Blinken have been given permission to send active duty reserve troops to the US-Mexico border as needed.
President Joe Biden stated that the authorities invoked will ensure the Department of Defence can properly sustain its support of the Department of Homeland Security regarding international drug trafficking along the Southwest Border.
Biden approved the action in response to the White House’s declaration of a national emergency involving international drug trafficking in December 2021. He blamed illicit drugs, precursor chemicals, and drug-related violence on drug cartels, transnational criminal organisations, and their facilitators entering American neighbourhoods.
President has imposed fines on prominent cartel members, and Republicans, including former US President Donald Trump, have called for a military solution.
A measure to designate the Gulf Cartel, Cartel de Noreste, Cartel de Sinaloa, and Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion as “foreign terrorist organisations” was filed by 20 Republican congressmen last month.
Nine entities would be designated as terrorist organisations under a Senate measure, and operations to demolish them would be carried out. Andres Manuel Lopes Obrador, the president of Mexico, has claimed that the fentanyl epidemic is responsible for thousands of American deaths every year.
Mexico president has denounced the US Drug Enforcement Agency for entering the Sinaloa cartel without the knowledge of his government. He has also warned that such actions put Mexican and American lives in danger.
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Customs and Border Patrol is concerned that 13,000 attempts to enter the border each day could overwhelm them after dealing with a record 2.76 million illegal crossings in 2017.
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