Republicans are increasingly coalescing around the idea of deploying military troops to Mexico as one way to take action as the fentanyl epidemic rages within the US.
GOP presidential contenders and Republicans on Capitol Hill have floated a variety of proposals in recent days to take action to cut off the supply of fentanyl precursors being shipped from China to Mexico, where the final product is concocted in underground labs operated by cartels.Former President Donald Trump called for the Navy to form a maritime wall to block incoming cargo ships from docking in Mexico. Cartels make fentanyl and then move it across the border into the U.S.
"If the cartels are cutting through the border wall trying to run product into this country, they’re going to end up stone-cold dead as a result of that bad decision," DeSantis said. "You think the fentanyl problem is bad now — what about three years from now when the Mexican drug cartels are more powerful than the Mexican government itself?" Vance asked."If we actually have some real American leadership, we can make some good progress here."
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