President Joe Biden agrees to deploy reserve troops at US-Mexico border

US President Joe Biden released an executive order allowing active duty reserve troops as needed to fight international drug trafficking, reported RT news. US president has given green light to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to deploy active duty reserve troops to US-Mexican border as needed. This order has been passed in order to combat illegal drug tre. “ authorities that have been invoked will ensure Department of Defense can properly sustain its support of Department of Homeland Security concerning international drug trafficking along Southwest Border,” wrote Biden in a message to Congress accompanying order.

US president: deploy troops to US - Mexico border

According to RT News, step approved by Biden has come in response to White House’s declaration of a national emergency in December 2021 regarding International drug trafficking. He has blamed “drug cartels, transnational criminal organisations, and ir facilitators” for bringing “illicit drugs and precursor chemicals” and “drug-related violence” into American communities. Furr, he has also imposed sanctions on senior cartel figures, as per news media outlet. Moreover, a huge number of Republicans including Ex-US President Donald Trump have urged for a military solution to cartel problem. Last Month, a group of 20  Republican congressmen presented a bill that would designate Gulf Cartel, Cartel de Noreste, Cartel de Sinaloa, and Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion as “foreign terrorist organisations".

A similar kind of bill from Senate would be labelling nine such organisations as terrorists and operation would be conducted to dismantle m. Previously, Biden ministration received a petition to identify cartels as terrorist organisations by solicitors general of 21 US states. According to Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopes Obror, more than thousands of Americans die each year from fentanyl crisis, which has been brought on by societal flaws north of border and Chinese fentanyl being shipped to North America. Furr, he has lambasted  US Drug Enforcement Agency for infiltrating Sinaloa cartel without his government’s knowledge and warned: "Such actions put Mexican and American lives in danger."