Mexican national Federico De Los Rios Rios pleaded guilty to drug smuggling, facing 10 years to life in prison after trying to smuggle fentanyl and cocaine into the US.
In a rare bipartisan move, two senators have introduced legislation in the latest attempt to fight the flow of fentanyl and its precursors into the U.S. from China, Mexico and through other borders.
Authorities found 70 pounds of fentanyl hidden inside boxes of slices of cactus, a Mexican food stable known as nopales.
Troops in Nogales, Mexico, have found 150 fentanyl pills, according to official statistics. Meanwhile, U.S. officials across the border have seized more than 400,000.
Trump has cast Canada as a major importer of the synthetic opioid to the US. But the seizures at the northern border represent a tiny portion of the trafficking trade.
Authorities in northern Mexico have found 32 kilograms of fentanyl hidden inside boxes of slices of cactus, a quintessential Mexican food stable known as nopales.
President Trump announced a partial rollback of a 25% tariff on Mexican goods Thursday, citing the US neighbor’s border crackdown.
U.S. President Donald Trump will not let up his pressure on tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China related to their handling of fentanyl, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Sunday. "If fentanyl ends,