Mexico objected to the United States to interfere in the fight against gangs

“This cannot be an opportunity for the US to infringe on our sovereignty. Mexico only supports cooperation and coordination, never bowed or accepted the accused, even infringement,” the President Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum spoke at a regular press conference on February 20.

The statement was made after the US government paralyzed a series of drug gangs into the terrorist organization, including some groups operating in Mexico.

The list includes Latin American gangs on De Aragua, MS-13, Sinalaa, Jalisco New Generation, United, Northeast, Gulf and Michacan, according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed on February 6 /2 newly announced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Jalisco New Generation and Sinaloa are the two largest gangs in Mexico.

US media recently quoted an unnamed official that the drone (UAV) MQ-9 of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) secretly operated on Mexico territory to search for workshops. Fentanyl preparation and spy activities of drug gangs are considered “terrorist groups”.

The CIA reconnaissance activity can be founded for the US military to conduct a “anti -terrorism” campaign across the border aimed at the gangs and drug -preparing workshops in Mexico.

President Sheinbaum said she would propose the constitutional reform to “protect national sovereignty” from this move.

“Mexican people will never accept intervention, infringement or any other move from outside to threaten territorial integrity, independence and national sovereignty in the waters, the sky and the mainland.” , she emphasized.

She also proposed to increase sanctions for weapons smuggling into Mexico. Most weapons that criminal gangs in Mexico use from the US.

Mexico will have more legal actions for US gun manufacturing companies because they do not manage the source of goods strict enough, so that the large amount of weapons to cross the border, fall into criminals, according to President Sheinbaum. The lawsuit will explain that American weapons companies are colluding with criminal gangs in Mexico.

Mexican presidents have previously mobilized the United States not to put drug gangs in the country on the list of terrorists. They argue that this type of crime has no political goals like terrorism, but only commits for profit.

The US’s arrangement of Mexican drug gangs into the terrorist organization also hidden the influence on illegal immigrants into the United States. Many immigrants had to pay ransom or submit to these gangs to reach the border and ask for asylum in the US. These cases may be charged with assisting terrorism under the US law.

After taking office on January 20, President Trump signed the executive decree declaring an emergency on the southern border, and determined that the cross -border drug gang has become a “threat. National security exceeds the level of ordinary criminal organizations “.

Tom Homan, a senior official in charge of US border, declared drug gangs “will now face the US military” and forecast violence can escalate.