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Mexico continues to support their drug cartels at the highest levels. In the time it took them to stop 150 fentanyl pills, America stopped 400,000
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/01/mexico-border-fentanyl-trump-trade/
Mexico sent 10,000 troops to stop fentanyl. It remains elusive.
Troops in Nogales, Mexico, have found 150 fentanyl pills, according to official statistics. Meanwhile, U.S. officials across the border have seized more than 400,000.
NOGALES, Mexico — When President Donald Trump threatened 25 percent tariffs unless Mexico put a halt to fentanyl trafficking, the government snapped to attention. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dispatched an additional 10,000 national guard members to the border. For more than three weeks, troops have stopped nearly every U.S.-bound car leaving this city, questioning drivers, sliding mirrors under vehicles, poking fiber-optic scopes into gas tanks and walking drug-sniffing dogs around autos.
The result? The troops in Nogales have found 150 fentanyl pills, according to official statistics. Meanwhile, U.S. officials just across the border have seized more than 400,000.
Some critics have dismissed Mexico’s operation as a show, designed to placate an American leader fond of military solutions to complex problems. That misses the point, analysts say. Mexico appears to be making a serious effort to cooperate more on tackling fentanyl and other narcotics. On Thursday, for example, it transferred 29 high-level drug suspects to the United States.
But the border operation underscores the difficulty of finding the opioid — especially for a country with a weak, underfunded security structure.
The fentanyl epidemic is the deadliest in U.S. history. Overdose deaths attributed mostly to the opioid topped 100,000 in 2023, before dropping by more than 20 percent in the 12-month period ending in August, according to preliminary figures. The drug is largely made in small Mexican labs and is highly concentrated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/01/mexico-border-fentanyl-trump-trade/
Mexico sent 10,000 troops to stop fentanyl. It remains elusive.
Troops in Nogales, Mexico, have found 150 fentanyl pills, according to official statistics. Meanwhile, U.S. officials across the border have seized more than 400,000.
NOGALES, Mexico — When President Donald Trump threatened 25 percent tariffs unless Mexico put a halt to fentanyl trafficking, the government snapped to attention. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dispatched an additional 10,000 national guard members to the border. For more than three weeks, troops have stopped nearly every U.S.-bound car leaving this city, questioning drivers, sliding mirrors under vehicles, poking fiber-optic scopes into gas tanks and walking drug-sniffing dogs around autos.
The result? The troops in Nogales have found 150 fentanyl pills, according to official statistics. Meanwhile, U.S. officials just across the border have seized more than 400,000.
Some critics have dismissed Mexico’s operation as a show, designed to placate an American leader fond of military solutions to complex problems. That misses the point, analysts say. Mexico appears to be making a serious effort to cooperate more on tackling fentanyl and other narcotics. On Thursday, for example, it transferred 29 high-level drug suspects to the United States.
But the border operation underscores the difficulty of finding the opioid — especially for a country with a weak, underfunded security structure.
The fentanyl epidemic is the deadliest in U.S. history. Overdose deaths attributed mostly to the opioid topped 100,000 in 2023, before dropping by more than 20 percent in the 12-month period ending in August, according to preliminary figures. The drug is largely made in small Mexican labs and is highly concentrated.
