Sending troops or firing missiles into Mexico to battle cartels, as proposed by Republican 2024 presidential candidates including former President Donald Trump, could lead to casualties and bloody reprisals on American soil without stemming the flow of illegal drugs, current and former U.S. military and government officials told Reuters.
at the southern U.S. border have exploded in recent years, rising from just 10.7 kg in 2014 to around 8,400 kg in 2022, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.
They argued that cartels could retaliate in U.S. territory and U.S. troops and Mexican civilians could die in firefights with heavily armed cartel members. Mexico would likely cut off cooperation with U.S. law enforcement, while fentanyl labs are hard to locate."You send over a SEAL team. You take out a cartel leader. Okay, now who's in charge? This could create the blowback effect of fracturing the cartels," said a U.S.
Fentanyl labs are "hard to find," he said. "But it's easy to hit the wrong apartment and kill a bunch of innocents next door, kids, families."in the city of Culiacan between cartel gunmen and Mexican soldiers during the arrest of a son of jailed kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. At least 10 troops and 19 gunmen died.
According to a memoir by Mark Esper, Trump's second defense secretary, Trump asked at least twice in 2020 if the military could "shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy drug labs."But Republican strategists say the calls for military action have intensified during the Republican presidential primary campaign as the fentanyl epidemic worsens.
"It's Hollywood. It looks great. We could do it. It would be easy to send them in, a couple of teams that could go and extract in extraordinary renditions," said the military officer. "But the question is why? There's no real purpose to it."
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