A senior Senate Democrat frustrated with the Mexican government’s laxed response to the fentanyl epidemic called for the Biden administration to take serious actions against its southern neighbor and force cooperation in the war on drug cartels
Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Robert Menendez urged the Biden administration to twist Mexico’s arm to quell the cartels manufacturing fentanyl and pressure the Chinese government to take out the labs supplying Mexican cartels with the ingredients used to make fentanyl.
Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Anne Milgram testified that the U.S. government knew who was responsible for the fentanyl epidemic and was doing everything in its limited power to take down those smugglers, money launderers, and chemists responsible.“Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco or CJNG Cartel ... both cartels in Mexico are responsible for the vast majority of fentanyl that is coming into the United States,” Milgram said.
“It’s impossible to tackle fentanyl trafficking without a productive partnership with Mexico,” Menendez told the panel of drug experts in the Biden administration. “I just don’t see it. I don’t see the willingness, I don’t see the urgency. I don’t see the commitment. I don’t see the actions that would indicate to me that Mexico’s being a good partner.”
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