Trump Administration Deploys CIA Drones for Surveillance of Mexican Drug Cartels

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Mexico's president says her government requested US surveillance drone flights

Mexico's president says her government requested U.S. surveillance drone flights. Here's what to know.

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The CIA has expanded its use of secret drone flights over Mexico as part of Trump’s aggressive campaign to target drug cartels and fentanyl labs. The undisclosed surveillance program had already begun under the Biden administration, and Trump’s expansion has raised more concerns over possible violations of Mexico’s sovereignty. Trump has manipulated the fentanyl scare to push his administration’s anti-immigrant policies and border crackdown, eve…

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The New York Times reported on Tuesday that the CIA under the new Trump administration has expanded secret drone flights over Mexican territory to hunt for fentanyl labs. US officials told the Times that the drone flights started under the Biden administration but quickly expanded once Trump came into office.…

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The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has reportedly been using MQ-9 Reaper drones to conduct surveillance missions against drug cartels in Mexico. Fox News reported that a senior U.S. official confirmed that the CIA has been using drones to gather surveillance on Mexican drug cartels and fentanyl laboratories. The anonymous official said that the MQ-9 Reaper drones, which were authorized under a Biden-Harris administration program that has…

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Sheinbaum made it clear that national sovereignty is not at risk, arguing that "there is nothing illegal" on U.S. drone flights, because they are made at Mexico's request in a bilateral collaboration scheme, something he recalled is not new but it has been carried out for several years.

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Mexico: 'Nothing illegal' about US drone flights

After US media reported an increase in drone flights over Mexican territory, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum insisted that they form part of a yearslong collaboration between the two countries.