Protect the nation: President Donald J. Trump is implementing prices on Canada and Mexico under the International Economic Powers (IEEPA) to combat the extraordinary threat to American national security, including our public health posed by uncontrolled drug trafficking.
- While President Trump has both gave Canada and Mexico many opportunities to limit the dangerous activity of the cartel and the influx of fatal drugs flowing in our country, they failed to adequately approach the situation.
- The flow of smuggling drugs like fentanyl in the United States, thanks to illicit distribution networks, has created a national emergency, including a public health crisis.
- Mexican drug trafficking organizations, the main fentanyl traffickers in the world, operate without hindrance due to an intolerable relationship with the government of Mexico.
- The Government of Mexico has granted refuge so that the cartels engage in the manufacture and transport of dangerous narcotics, which has collectively resulted in overdose of hundreds of thousands of American victims.
- Mexican drug cartels are known for extreme brutality, corruption and control over entire regions of Mexico.
- The Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels make fentanyl in the clandestine laboratories that they supervise in Mexico, both in powder and in a hurry in false pills, and the tradition in the United States through the many entry points they control. 97% of convulsions occur at the American-mexican border.
- The violence of the cartel, including armed drones and IED on the roadside, is closer and closer to the American-Mexican border while the cartels are more actively targeting as well as military and police staff.
- This alliance with the Mexican government endangered the national security of the United States, and we must eradicate the influence of these dangerous cartels.
- There is also an increasing presence of Mexican cartels operating the fentanyl and Nitazène synthetic laboratories in Canada.
- A recent study recognized the increased interior production of fentanyl of Canada and its increasing imprint in the international distribution of narcotics.
- Canada -based drug trafficking organizations maintain robust “super laboratories”, mainly in rural and dense areas in Western Canada, some of which can produce 44 to 66 pounds from Fentanyl each week.
- Last year, crises of the northern border of fentanyl, although smaller than those of Mexico, could kill 9.5 million Americans due to drug power – the growing role of Canada in this crisis.
- Fentanyl’s crises on the northern border during the first four months of this exercise are quickly closer to what has been seized the entire year 2022.
- The failure of the two nations to arrest traffickers, to grasp drugs or to coordinate with the American police constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the security of America – requiring the action IEPA to force responsibility and to protect American life.
President Trump keeps his promise to stop the flow of illegal foreigners and drugs: When the voters massively elected Donald J. Trump as president, they gave him a mandate to seal the border. That’s exactly what he does.
- Biden administration policies have fueled the worst border crisis in the history of the United States.
- More than 10 million illegal foreigners have tried to enter the United States under the direction of Biden.
- This problem is not limited to the southern border – sales on the northern border with Canada is also increasing.
- The sustained influx of illegal foreigners has deep consequences on all aspects of our national life – Surwalling our schools, reducing our wages, reducing our housing supply and increasing rents, overflowing our hospitals, draining our well -being system and causing crime.
- Gang members, smugglers, human traffickers and illegal drugs and narcotics of all kinds flow through our borders and in our communities.
- The last exercise, customs and border protection (CBP) have apprehended more than 21,000 pounds of fentanyl at our borders, enough fentanyl to kill more than 4 billion people.
- Since 2023, the DRUG undercorcement Administration (DEA) has seized more than 25,697 kilograms of fentanyl pills and more than 7,272 kilograms of fentanyl powder at the southern border, and more than 659 kilograms of fentanyl pills and more than 650 kilograms of fentanyl powder on the northern border.
- From 2021 to be presented, fentanyl was the main cause of overdose drugs in drugs in the United States, followed by methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin in this order.
- According to the CDC, 68% of all the deaths of poisoning drugs in 2022 and 2023 – 216,294 in total – were caused by synthetic opioids, mainly fentanyl.
- It is estimated that federal officials are unable to grasp a fraction of smuggling fentanyl through the southern border.
- More Americans die from fentanyl overdoses each year than the number of American lives lost in the entire Vietnam War.
Rely on past success: President Trump continues to demonstrate his commitment to ensure that US trade policy serves national interest.
- As President Trump said it in the presidential memorandum on American trade policy, trade policy is an essential element of national security.
- President Trump promised in November to “sign all the documents necessary to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% rate on all products that arrive in the United States, and its open open borders. This price will remain in force until drugs, in particular fentanyl, and all illegal foreigners stop this invasion of our country! »»
- During his first mandate as president of the United States, President Trump set up the presidential committee on the fight against drug addiction and the opioid crisis and declared the opioid crisis an emergency in public health.
- President Trump also has a long record for setting up America on trade. In his first mandate, President Trump managed to use threats of prices on Mexico to help guarantee our border.
- When our national security was threatened by a global surplus of steel and aluminum offer, President Trump has taken rapid measures to protect US national security by implementing prices on imports of these goods.