Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) shrugged off Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's rebuke about the prospect of deploying U.S. forces against the drug cartels.
Last month, Graham issued an ultimatum of sorts demanding Mexico ramp up its offensive against the drug cartels or else they will be told,"you are an enemy of the United States." Lopez Obrador and other top Mexican officials roundly repudiated the notion."No sovereign country has the right to kill 70,000 Americans without some kind of repercussion," Graham told Fox News Sunday.
"Seventy thousand Americans died last year from fentanyl poisoning. This year alone, 13,000 pounds of fentanyl has been seized at the U.S.-Mexican border. Okay? That's enough to kill billions of people, 2.5 billion people," Graham added. "We are not going to permit any foreign government to intervene in our territory, much less that a government's armed forces intervene," Lopez Obrador declared at a news conference last month.
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