“Mexican cartels are richer than some Nation-States”: Garland

WASHINGTON.- Merrick Garland, general tax USAdeclared before the committee of the House of Representatives that “cartels are enormously profitable.”

“They have more money than some Nation-States. And there are places in Mexico where it is difficult to deal with the cartels,” he said when testifying regarding the budget request of the Justice Department.

The prosecutor highlighted that US authorities have “pursued the cartels responsible for trafficking deadly fentanyl into our communities and we have brought their leaders to justice here in the United States.”

“We have prosecuted fraud, recovered funds stolen from American taxpayers and challenged illegal monopolies that harm consumers and workers,” he listed among his office’s achievements in the fight once morest drugs.

The US “needs more” from Mexico in the fight once morest drug trafficking

Last Thursday the director of the FBI, Christopher Wraystated that in the US “we need much more from Mexico” in the fight once morest drug trafficking.

At a subcommittee hearing on House of Representatives Assignments He assured that the Mexican government has been “unequal” in its assistance to United States law enforcement in the fight once morest fentanyl trafficking.

“It is very unequal. We’ve had some cases where we’ve had a key arrest and extradition […] we are starting to work with vetted equipment there […] but we need much, much more than what we receive from the Mexican government,” he said.

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