According to the New York Times, the Trump administration is reportedly the latest effort in its latest efforts to use secret drone programs to hunt Mexico’s fentanyl labs and combat the flow of illegal drugs and the flow to the United States. Masu.

These secret drone flights will be used by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officials to identify Mexico’s Fentanyl Institute and share their findings with the Mexican government. According to An official who spoke anonymously with NYT to discuss the classified intelligence program. The secret CIA operation first began under the Biden administration, but has grown in scope since the return of President Donald Trump, who vowed to be tougher in the drug crime syndicate. (Related: “Not justify costs anymore”: immigration shelters are closer because they have border numbers under Trump)

Northern Command conducted flights that monitored the US-Mexico border over two dozen using slates from a variety of aircraft, including RC-125 rivet joints, U-2, P-8S and drones. The administration has not allowed the CIA to use drones for deadly airstrikes. The aircraft are only used to help Mexican authorities find drug businesses within their territory.

CIA drones are reportedly proven to be successful in finding the lab location, and chemicals released into the air from the air due to the production of fentanyl can be easily found in the sky. Masu. The agency spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The rise in drone flights coincided with Trump’s other efforts to fight Mexican drug cartels and dent drug trafficking, forcing the Mexican government to step up as well.

On his first day back to the office, the president was Presidential Order It is a label that allows drug cartels to be designated as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) and authorize more capabilities to combat these international criminal syndicates. The FTO designation will spark US approval to freeze financial assets, ban entry into the country, and prosecute targeted members to support terrorism.

Northern Command announcement At the beginning of February, the creation of a special information task force consisting of 140 analysts along the tropical border was assigned to collect and analyze data by surveillance aircraft and other sources. Analysts will provide the US Border Patrol with “full motion video analysis, counter network analysis, and Spanish translation.”

On February 3, President Claudia Sheinbaum will deploy 10,000 troops to the US-Mexican border in the face of Trump’s threat of clearing 25% tariffs on all Mexican products exported to the US. I agreed to this. The military is tasked with stopping illegal immigration and trafficking of illegal drugs, but the goal is in particular to stop fentanyl.

The Mexican president’s willingness to meet Trump’s demands coincides with the illegal fentanyl epidemic that has shaken the American population, with more than 21,000 pounds of drugs being seized in the final year of the Biden administration. According to Customs and Border Security Data. A kilogram of fentanyl can kill up to 500,000 people, According to Drug Enforcement Bureau.

Over the weekend, Mexican law enforcement seized 440 pounds of methamphetamine, totaling nearly $40 million, in the cartel hub of Sinaloa. Mexican officials have confiscated nearly five tons of methane, 453 kilos of cocaine and 55 kilos of fentanyl since the National Guard deployment began on February 5th.

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