Biden to toughen fight against fentanyl at border

by times news cr

2024-08-03 05:58:36

Five days after the capture of Ishmael “The May”co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartelthe president of USA, Joe Bidenwill issue the National Security Memorandum to urge all federal law enforcement departments and agencies to redouble efforts to stop the supply of fentanyl and other synthetics from entering the country.

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Through a statement, the administration Biden – Harris He called the Congress American to align measures to combat drug trafficking fentanyl, this through the approval of the Administration’s anti-fentanyl proposal “Detect and Defeat.”

It is worth mentioning that the initiative incorporates ideas bipartisan presented by members of the Congress, and increases the United States’ ability to detect and seize illicit drugs, and hold drug traffickers accountable.

Border agents will therefore have the tools necessary to more effectively track and locate small shipments crossing the border, while a national registry of presses and machines for making pills or tablets will be created, with the aim of regulating substances related to fentanyl.

Meanwhile, the Justice Department, As of 2021, it has registered and prosecuted dozen Mexican cartel leaders, drug traffickers and those involved in money laundering, including the co-founder of the cartel Sinaloa Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia, the leader of Chapitos Nestor Isidro “El Nini” Perez Salasalready the main chemical traders of the cartel Jalisco New Generation putting dangerous illicit drug traffickers in prison.

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2024-08-03 05:58:36

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