My bipartisan bill, the American Cooperation with Our Neighbors act, takes the department tasks the Department of State and US Agency for International Development with improving cooperation and collaboration between the United States and Mexico. Because this isn't just an American problem. Fentanyl is trafficked into the US largely from a single source, Mexican cartels. These criminal enterprises manufacture this very lucrative, very potent and very hard to track drug and fuel rampant corruption and violence in Mexico. (01:06–01:12)
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Asserts that Mexican cartels are the primary source of fentanyl trafficked into the US.
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