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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has threatened to start a public “information campaign” in the United States against Republican lawmakers after several have called on the U.S. military to target drug cartels south of the border.
“I would just like to tell them either they change their treatment of Mexico or from today we will start an information campaign in the United States so that all Mexicans, our fellow countrymen, know about this aggression by Republicans against Mexico,” López Obrador said Thursday during a news conference.
In the wake of the kidnapping of four Americans and the killing of two of them in the border city of Matamoros, Mexico several Republicans in Congress have demanded the United States step up its fight against Mexican drug cartels, even if that means crossing the border to do it.
“The kidnapping and murder of American citizens in Matamoros prove that Mexico is a narco-state,” Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) told The Epoch Times.
originally posted by: namehere
we need to implement universal healthcare, medical issues are the biggest reason people get started on the path of addiction, if medical treatment of issues was no longer avoided by people then much pain and suffering could be avoided and people wouldn't need to resort to drug abuse. another reason people do it is because being illegal gives it an allure of foreboding and when that happens they get curious and want to try it or they do it as an act of rebellion, if it was legal it would lose that allure and many would ignore it. get rid of the incentives to doing drugs, no need to invade anyone to end the cartels.
originally posted by: lordcomac
Considering we don't have any border enforcement, we might as well just take Mexico and make it a new set of US states.
Right down to the Panama canal.
It would probably cost less than we already pay for the border patrol that isn't allowed to do their job, and once complete we'd have more land, more people, and more control of who comes and goes.
Of course, we would need to fix our own government first, the entire West Coast is a lawless wasteland as it is, begging to be controlled...
Maybe Mexico will take that instead.
originally posted by: marg6043
Drugs from Mexico benefits more the Mexican government than the US, but lets no forget the big cartels are all over the US, they need US banks to launder the money back to them in Mexico, US knows this but they do nothing about it.
“Here, we do not produce fentanyl, and we do not have consumption of fentanyl,” López Obrador said.