🇺🇸🇲🇽 The U.S. could designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations — what would that mean?

📎 CBS News

🇲🇽🇺🇸 “In 2008, Wachovia Bank (now part of Wells Fargo) admitted it laundered $378.4 billion for Mexican cartels, about one-third of Mexico’s annual gross domestic product. They paid $160 million in fines to the US treasury.”

📎 Combate

🇺🇸🇲🇽🪖 Trump Asks Advisers for ‘Battle Plans’ to ‘Attack Mexico’ if Reelected

As he campaigns for a second White House term, Trump has been asking policy advisers for a range of military options aimed at taking on Mexican drug cartels, including strikes that are not sanctioned by Mexico’s government, according to two sources familiar with the situation.

“‘Attacking Mexico,’ or whatever you’d like to call it, is something that President Trump has said he wants ‘battle plans’ drawn for,” says one of the sources. “He’s complained about missed opportunities of his first term, and there are a lot of people around him who want fewer missed opportunities in a second Trump presidency.”

Trump lieutenants have briefed him on several options that include unilateral military strikes and troop deployments on a sovereign U.S. partner and neighbor, the sources say. One such proposal that Trump has been briefed on this year is an October white paper from the Center for Renewing America, an increasingly influential think tank staffed largely by Trumpist wonks, MAGA loyalists, and veterans of his administration.

📎 Rolling Stone

🇺🇸🇲🇽🪖 “Uniformed Mexican soldiers in February shot and killed unarmed civilians, including an American, then blocked medics from providing care, a top government official said. It has deepened concerns about the growing footprint of Mexico’s armed forces.”

📎 New York Times

🇺🇸🇲🇽 I will be introducing legislation to address fentanyl poisoning in America. I hope the legislation will be bipartisan.

Legislation will include:

➡️Foreign Terrorist Organization designation for Mexican drug cartels.

➡️Funding for fentanyl interdiction.

➡️Increased penalties for trafficking fentanyl.

➡️Funding for education and prevention.

📎 Lindsey Graham

🇺🇸🇲🇽 American mechanic kidnapped in Mexico; FBI offering $10K reward for info in case.

📎 Fox News

🇺🇸🇲🇽 “A @TxDPS Trooper disrupted a human smuggling attempt in Val Verde County. The driver, from San Marcos, was arrested for human smuggling after the Trooper found 8 illegal immigrants from Mexico concealed inside the truck. #OperationLoneStar”

📎 Chris Olivarez

🇲🇽🪖 Two police officers from the State Prosecutor's Office were ambushed and killed by alleged sicarios of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel #CJNG while they were conducting investigations.
#Michoacán #Mexico

📎 The Aftermath

🇺🇸🇲🇽 "Because fentanyl is lethal, comparatively easy to transport, synthetic, and not based on agriculture, fentanyl demands a new bilateral U.S.-Mexico strategy," writes @CSISAmericas' Kimberly Breier.

📎 CSIS

🇺🇸🇲🇽 Mexico now receives more remittances than China.

📎 The Economist

🇺🇸🇲🇽 “This is how bad our foreign policy has gotten”

@jackposobiec on Mexico cutting deals with China and the failure of the Biden administration.

📎 Mythinformed

🇺🇸🇲🇽 -70K Americans dead from fentanyl poisoning
-HIGHEST record of migrants dying crossing the U.S.-Mexico border
-Cartel-terrorists murdering Americans & migrants in broad DAYLIGHT

“This is all on this administration's watch”

📎 Rep. Chip Roy Press Office

🇷🇺🇲🇽🇺🇸 Patrushev: “There is no doubt that sooner or later the southern neighbors of the United States will regain the territories stolen from them.”

📎 RGRU