YOUR President (yes, MAGATs voted for this), handling the fentanyl "CRISIS!!!!!!!" (From Reuters)

[Montauk6]

Trump aid freeze disrupts anti-narcotics program at Mexican ports
By Stephen Eisenhammer and Laura Gottesdiener
February 24, 2025, 6:04 AM EST

MEXICO CITY, Feb 24 (REUTERS) - U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country's drug cartels, according to eight people familiar with the situation. It’s one of several U.S. counternarcotics efforts in Mexico derailed in recent weeks by the stop-work order.

The initiative provided Mexico’s Navy with training and equipment to improve screening of cargo entering and exiting the Port of Manzanillo, the nation’s busiest container port. Two additional Mexican seaports — Lázaro Cárdenas and Veracruz — were to be added this month, a rollout that’s now on hold due to the funding cutoff, six of the people said. The effort was part of the Container Control Programme, a joint initiative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Customs Organization, which helps local authorities better screen cargo in efforts to stop cross-border contraband smuggling. The U.S. provided some $800,000 in funding to launch the project at the Port of Manzanillo in 2023, two of the people said.

The Port of Manzanillo has long been a magnet for narcos looking to sneak Chinese chemical precursors into Mexico to supply illicit labs that manufacture synthetic opioids and methamphetamine. Traffickers have likewise stashed finished street drugs aboard outbound cargo ships, particularly meth headed for Europe. The U.S. funding freeze has also shelved, for now, future training and equipment donations at Manzanillo, four of the sources said. The port was slated to receive additional cargo scanners and drug-testing equipment, two sources said.

White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly did not answer emailed questions from Reuters about the administration’s decision to halt funding for the Mexican port program. She did say that Trump is acting to secure the border and cut federal spending.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-aid-freeze-disrupts-anti-narcotics-program-mexican-ports-2025-02-24/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Ah, the Trump M.O.

1. Freeze the assets for Mexican foreign aid.
2. Allowing Mexican cartels to continue, if not increase, importation of Fentanyl.
3. Trump uses the increase of Fentanyl to justify 25% tariffs on Mexico.

Mob boss, my ass.

[Montauk6]

2. And, if you read down further, it's a flimsy excuse for the US to send troops

These morons......

[Rowdyag]

4. Trump or musk

Do you think trump has enough brain power to think that far out? Or maybe the un-elected emperor musk did it for some still murky reason? Money, power, or money and power.

[patphil]

10. Stephen Miller at work?

[Stargazer99]

3. So Trump made damn sure that more drugs would get into the US

Can't you Republicans ever stop gaslighting and lying?

[travelingthrulife]

7. He is a mob boss after all. To be expected he would run drugs if he could.

[Montauk6]

11. "IT'S IN THEIR NAY-CHUH!"

[Attilatheblond]

5. Drug distribution in the US is a wild business. Thinking maybe TPTB want the monopoly

and/or certain tiny greedy fingers expect certain considerations when deciding just how enforcement will work.

[Norrrm]

6. Donald pardoned the Silk Road guy who enabled the financing of much fentanyl into our country.

[travelingthrulife]

8. "Good people on both sides"

The benevolent Godfather.

[Montauk6]

12. This could also be attributed to the MSM

"BOTH SIDES! BOTH SIDES!"

[Wounded Bear]

9. Having a hard time believing these consequences are "unintended"...nt