State Secretary Marco Rubio The use of renunciations to maintain the program in Mexico and associated with border security and anti-fentan efforts go in the midst of freezing federal financing-is trying to put pressure on Mexico to increase its efforts.
Senior State Department official said on Friday, Fox News Digital said that Rubio approved a renunciation from a break throughout the administration of federal financing of efforts under the International Narcotics Program and the Law Company (INL).
The INL program provides assistance to border protection agencies in other countries that could be a threat to the US if the production of narcotics, organized crime and terrorist activity can flourish.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio holds a joint press conference with the President of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader at the National Palace in Santo Doming, the Dominican Republic, on Thursday, February 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, pool)
“Inl programs aim to reduce illegal drug entry into the United States and minimize the impact of international crime on the United States and its citizens,” the customs website and Border Protection (CBP) said. These include programs that target the smuggling of the fantanila. An illegal fentanil, which can be fatal in small doses, is usually made in Mexico using Chinese precursors, and then smuggled across the main border of the US-mexico. Fentanil overdose is killed each year by tens of thousands of Americans.
Rubio recently completed a tour of Latin America, where he secured numerous liabilities of foreign governments in terms of the safety of the border. The official said that INL’s programming is returned to the network in these countries since this trip.
Said Reuters On Thursday, the programming of Inl Mexico was stopped, including programs that train Mexican authorities to find and destroy the fentanil laboratory and stop chemicals of the precursor to which they entered Mexico. But the State Department official has challenged it, saying Fox News Digital that some Mexican programming is already approved. In particular, $ 5.2 million approved for Mexico has been approved to date, with an additional $ 2.5 million waiting.
They said that these renunciations included funds to implement the law in Mexico, which supported the extradition of members of transnational criminal organizations in the United States who performed migrants of fental and smuggled migrants in the USA other programs include a program to intercept wires and programs that help research drug trade members members of the cartel members .
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during a press conference at the National Palace, in Mexico City in Mexico, January 8, 2025. Reuters/Henry Romero (Reuters)
The clerk said that the announcements of these renunciations did not arrive because Rubio plans to visit Mexico and hopes to provide additional obligations from Mexico for the safety of the border.
“The new administration in the US has taken over the duty and we need increased Mexico obligations to convince us that they are serious when it comes to stopping the flow of fentanil Other synthetic drugs, “the clerk said.
The official said that there have been some renunciations so far because now they want to show that it is a reliable partner, but other programs are being viewed and “we do not want to include them yet until we know that our Mexican colleagues will go promise various actions in return.”
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One of the areas to see further action is to reject assistance in Inl President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, whom they have said to have refused to participate in the US training and equipping program of Mexican police. The new Sheinbaum administration has now approved part of this assistance, officials say, but the rest did not approve or eliminated the approval system that caused the blockade. Officials believe that Rubio’s visit will confirm the dedication of Mexico and that the announcement of the continuation of more financing of INL will follow.
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The incentive comes due to the beginning of Trump’s administration and state department. The administration provided numerous obligations related to the limit of Mexico and Canadaas well as the promises to accept the migrants returned from Venezuela and Colombia.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
