President Biden on Friday said that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has urged him to stop the U.S. from sending guns into Mexico amid talks about fentanyl.
President Biden, left, and Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pose during a welcome ceremony as part of the 2023 North American Leaders Summit at Palacio Nacional in Mexico City on Jan. 9, 2023.
However, the U.S. has been facing a growing issue in recent years of a massive flood of fentanyl flowing into the country, directly leading to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans each year. There were 14,000 pounds of the drug seized last fiscal year at the southern border and more than 11,000 pounds this fiscal year to date. There were over 70,000 deaths recorded due to fentanyl in the U.S. in 2021, according to the National Institute of Health.The illicit narcotic is primarily produced in Mexican drug labs using Chinese precursors. Yet, despite it leading to massive numbers of death in the U.S.
"Here, we do not produce fentanyl, and we do not have consumption of fentanyl," López Obrador said in March."Why don’t they [the U.S.] take care of their problem of social decay?""There is a lot of disintegration of families. There is a lot of individualism. There is a lack of love, of brotherhood, of hugs and embraces," López Obrador said, according to The Associated Press."That is why [U.S.
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