{"id":471241,"date":"2021-05-04T15:05:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T19:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=471241"},"modified":"2021-05-04T15:05:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T19:05:48","slug":"dea-official-mexican-cartels-smuggling-fentanyl-across-border-with-impunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dea-official-mexican-cartels-smuggling-fentanyl-across-border-with-impunity\/","title":{"rendered":"DEA Official: Mexican Cartels Smuggling Fentanyl Across Border With Impunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdea-official-mexican-cartels-smuggling-fentanyl-across-border-with-impunity%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=471241&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.617021276596\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Says U.S.-Mexico cooperation has deteriorated amid immigration surge<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1312346591_736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1312346591_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1312346591_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1312346591_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\t A transport officer searches immigrants before bussing them to a processing center after they crossed the border from Mexico on April 13, 2021 in La Joya, Texas. \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 May 4, 2021 3:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"75.680579964851\">\n<p>Mexican cartels are trafficking deadly narcotics\u00a0into the United States with impunity, a top Drug Enforcement Administration official said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><span>Cooperation between U.S. and Mexican authorities to target cartels has deteriorated amid <\/span>a surge of illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, Matthew Donahue, the DEA deputy chief of operations, told NPR. Donahue said Mexican law enforcement have cut off ties with the DEA, fearing punishment from the Mexican government if they cooperate with the U.S. agency<span>\u2014<\/span>a breakdown that has helped cartels smuggle fentanyl and methamphetamines into the United States.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It&#8217;s a national health threat, it&#8217;s a national safety threat,&#8221; Donahue <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/05\/03\/993059731\/u-s-mexico-efforts-targeting-drug-cartels-have-unraveled-top-dea-official-tells-\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><i><span>. <\/span><\/i><span>&#8220;[The cartels] do not fear any kind of law enforcement \u2026 or military inside of Mexico right now.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) blasted the Biden administration for the fallout with Mexican law enforcement, saying it fails to protect Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;<\/span><span>President Biden&#8217;s policies aren&#8217;t compassionate and they aren&#8217;t protecting Americans,&#8221; Cotton <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenTomCotton\/status\/1389603789896888320?s=20\"><span>tweeted<\/span><\/a><span> on Tuesday. &#8220;The Biden administration is making it easier for drugs to be smuggled into our country.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Within weeks of taking office, President Joe Biden overturned a spate of Trump administration policies that maintained strict border enforcement, helping precipitate a massive surge in illegal immigration.\u00a0<\/span><span>In March, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-immigration-border\/u-s-facing-biggest-migrant-surge-in-20-years-homeland-security-idUSKBN2B81M5\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> the country is facing its worst influx of illegal immigration in 20 years. The surge has created both security and humanitarian crises: Federal authorities have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/terror-suspects-caught-crossing-mexico-border\/\"><span>apprehended<\/span><\/a><span> multiple foreign nationals on terror watchlists at the border, and customs agents have detained thousands of unaccompanied minors in overcrowded facilities as they struggle to control the wave of illegal immigration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A porous border and weak security ties with Mexico have resulted in large influxes of fentanyl, a highly addictive and lethal drug, across the southern border. Between October 2020 and March 2021, customs agents <a href=\"https:\/\/insightcrime.org\/news\/fentanyl-seizures-explode-united-states\/\">seized<\/a> more than 2.5 tons of fentanyl\u2014a more than 300 percent year-on-year increase.<\/span><span> Since 2019, cartels have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a667a8b6-a306-4656-b153-b83897df323e\"><span>enjoyed<\/span><\/a><span> soaring profits due to increased demand for the drug in the United States. More than 90,000 Americans overdosed on illicit drugs last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Says U.S.-Mexico cooperation has deteriorated amid immigration surge  A transport officer searches immigrants before bussing them to a processing center after they crossed the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277301,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1312346591_736x514-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"DEA Official: Mexican Cartels Smuggling Fentanyl Across Border With Impunity","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1312346591_736x514-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"DEA Official: Mexican Cartels Smuggling Fentanyl Across Border With Impunity","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}