On Tuesday, the U.S. government levied sanctions on 17 Mexican and Chinese companies for their suspected involvement in the production of illicit fentanyl. The target, however, should be the two governments themselves, according to former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Victor Avila.
The Biden administration imposed sanctions on May 30 on 17 people and organizations it says are distributing equipment used in producing illicit pills that frequently include fentanyl. This synthetic opioid painkiller is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine.
Spearheaded by the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the action also involves the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP)….