Top U.S. law enforcement officials are raising concerns about Mexican cartels moving their operations to Canada to produce and distribute fentanyl, a synthetic opioid behind an overdose epidemic.
Terry Cole, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and FBI Director Kash Patel told a U.S. Senate committee on May 12 about their efforts to tackle drug trafficking.
Aside from working to prevent source countries like China and India from shipping narcotics ingredients to North America, Patel and Cole spoke of their work to disrupt new drug production facilities in Canada.
“We continue to keep the pressure on China, on India, continue to target the leadership in the cartels, but very conscious of what’s going on in the northern border as well,” Cole said….