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John Neely Kennedy, senator for Louisiana and Republican Party militant, asked Anne Milgram, director of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), on May 10, 2023, to propose to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a “deal that cannot be refused”, so that the politician from Tabasco accepts a U.S. military intervention in Mexican territory, to fight the drug cartels responsible for the fentanyl crisis.
During a session with Milgram and Christopher Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), some Republican legislators assured that this was the best option to protect the safety and health of U.S. citizens.
In his speech, Kennedy assured that, at present, the fentanyl coming into the United States comes from Mexican drug traffickers. According to the Republican senator, “it is a fact” that if President López Obrador agreed to allow the U.S. military to enter Mexico, they could “work together” against the trafficking of this synthetic drug.
On at least four occasions, Kennedy questioned the head of the U.S. Department of Justice agency that such action would be the one that could end drug trafficking into the United States.
In response, he called on the DEA and President Joseph Biden to make a deal “that cannot be refused” with the politician from Tabasco, to allow U.S. military and police forces to enter Mexico and “put an end to the cartels” and the fentanyl trafficking.
“Without the people of the United States, Mexico figuratively speaking would be eating cat food out of a can and living in a tent behind an interior, so why would you [Milgram] or the president [Biden], without embarrassing anyone, pick up the phone and call President López Obrador, and make him a deal he can’t refuse, to allow our military and our law enforcement officers to come into Mexico and work with his to stop the cartels?” said the senator.
Kennedy also demanded that the DEA director ask Biden to make a deal with the president of Mexico, because, according to him, they knew that Lopez Obrador “has neither the capacity, nor the will, to stop the cartels” of drug trafficking.