President-elect Donald Trump said he wants to use the United States military to combat Mexican drug cartels, a plan his opponents suggest could exacerbate the border crisis and worsen trade relations with Mexico.
“If the US government sends forces down there surreptitiously, it could go sideways pretty quickly and create a crisis for the Trump administration that could really give his administration a black eye,” Brandan Buck, a foreign policy research fellow at the Cato Institute, told the Washington Examiner.
WHICH ITEMS WOULD BE AFFECTED BY TRUMP’S PROPOSED TARIFFS ON CANADA AND MEXICO
As one of his major campaign promises, Trump said he wants to crack down on drug cartels — even going as far as labeling them as “terrorist organizations” so the U.S. can
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