Nearly all of that fentanyl was taken at the U.S. southern border. In the current fiscal year, just 10 pounds have been recovered along the Canadian border to date, compared with 5,400 along the Mexican border,
CBP data shows.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau balked at Trump’s tariffs,
saying Tuesday that there was “no justification” for them because “less than 1% of the fentanyl intercepted at the U.S. border came from Canada.”Last month, after Trump first threatened to impose tariffs, Trudeau announced that he would appoint a “fentanyl czar” and designate cartels as terrorist organizations.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who assumed office in October, has also tried to work with the Trump administration by amassing thousands of her country’s troops along the border last month to snuff out drugs. Sheinbaum has been
aggressive with Mexico’s drug cartels, deploying troops to go after such crime in the state of Sinaloa.
