Isn’t just so nice that Mexico is suddenly getting concerned enough to seize fentanyl made in their country, headed for America to kill people? All of a sudden, after Trump’s tariff threats, Mexico has made it’s biggest fentanyl bust in the country’s history.
The Mexican military captured more than a ton of fentanyl pills, one of the biggest seizures of the synthetic opioid in the country’s history, during two raids on Tuesday, officials said.
The raids came after a sharp drop in fentanyl seizures in Mexico this year and days after President-elect Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods. Trump said the taxes were in response to the lackluster prevention of illegal immigration and drugs flowing into the United States from its neighbors.
Mexican authorities said soldiers and marines spotted two men Tuesday carrying guns in Sinaloa, the state that is home to the eponymous drug cartel.