Posted on 12/05/2024 7:03:37 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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.
During the chase, the men ran into two houses. Around 660 pounds of fentanyl was found in one of the homes and a truck in the other had 1,750 pounds of the drug. Several guns were also confiscated, and two men were arrested.
"In Sinaloa, we achieved the biggest seizure in history of fentanyl," Public Safety Secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch wrote on social media.
On Wednesday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said, "This is an investigation that had been going on for some time, and yesterday it bore fruit."
The pretext for the drug seizure – randomly noticing two men carrying weapons – has been used before by Mexican authorities to enter homes without a warrant.
Fentanyl seizures in Mexico had fallen significantly earlier this year, with as little as a few ounces being taken by authorities at points during the past summer.
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The investigation may have been going on for some time, but no action was taken until Trump laid down the law.
It’s a tough call for the Mexicans to give up all that money in payoffs.
Build the wall and patrol it actively - get a large number of federal employees involved in staffing and maintaining the wall and you’ll never have a problem with Congressional funding for the wall. And you’ll see the fentanyl-from-Mexico problem addressed as well as the illegals-from-Mexico problem.
New drug showing up 10 times more powerful than Fentanyl: Nitazene
Require Mexico to destroy drugs publicly, failure will result in tariffs.
Seizing without destruction just allows for transport later
And just like that Mexico proves that it could have stopped all this long ago if they wanted to.
Well, lawdy lawdy lawdy! Imagine that.
Gotta work on the tunnels as well.
I’ll bet that like in Israel, there are far more honeycombing the ground at the border than we realize. A few strategically places bunker busters could work wonders to start.
Yep, these raids are window dressing, only a fraction of what the cartels are pushing.
2400 lbs = a Ton in my book.
Absolutely - patrols along the border wall would have to include monitoring for tunnel activity under the wall.
Praying that evil actors on both sides of our border be brought to justice - with prejudice!
Weird what they can accomplish if they just put some effort into it
thats a tonne (A metric ton)
a US or imperial ton Is 2000 pounds.
All she has to do is call the Cartel and ask them to send some so they can report an accomplishment to DJT.
The cartels allowed the Mexican government to locate and seize these drugs.
Exactly. The left scream about how “expensive it will be to kick everyone illegal out, and then lay to build the wall, and then to maintain the wall every year” but the fsct is, that efen if it cost us $200 bi.lion to remove everyone, build, and then maintain, that $200 billion will be jusy the first year price, after that it will only cost to maintain the wall and patrol it- which might cost a few billion maybe, but the kicker is that we would be sav8ng over $1 trillion dollars every year, because that is what it is costing us now to house illegals and their crimes whenall costs are estimated together.
That is 1 trillion every year we would be saving, so a cost of say $20 to patrol the wall in order to save $1 trillion every year is a no Brainer decision.
And again Trump isn’t even in office yet! Wait until he is!!!
Yep, window dressing.
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