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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared during the first GOP presidential primary debate on Wednesday that he would sanction the use of military force in Mexico to combat the Mexican drug cartels that are smuggling fentanyl into the United States.
When asked if he supported deploying US Special Forces across the border into Mexico to destroy fentanyl labs and the activities of drug cartels, DeSantis responded that he would.
Ron DeSantis has previously pledged to authorize lethal action against drug smugglers at the border. Many thousands of our fellow people are being killed by the cartels. You want to discuss a nation that is slipping away? A large portion of your southern border is under the cartels’ control.
He declared that we needed to protect our citizens and restore the rule of law. DeSantis has taken a tough stance on what he has called an invasion at the southern border, both in terms of migration and drug smuggling, and his earlier remarks about Mexico and fentanyl have angered Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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Taking Action Against Mexican Drug Cartels
His pledges to take action against the cartels were reiterated by him on Wednesday. In his capacity as commander in chief, the President of the United States must exercise all of his legal authority to defend both the nation and the people.
We will employ lethal force when they approach, so be prepared. Indeed, we reserve the right to conduct business. He continued by talking of a meeting with a mother who had lost her son to a fentanyl overdose after taking one Percocet laced with the opioid, which is 50–100 times more strong than morphine.
The majority of fentanyl is produced in Mexico from precursors that originate from China, and it is routinely pressed into fake pills, leaving users uninformed of what they are actually taking.
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Source: www.msn.com
