as advisors to help the colombia military get on the ground to hit it at its source. you re never gonna win this game at the border. you need to tell mexico you are harboring drug cartels, you re giving them safe havens, they re terrorizing americans, they kidnapped four americans, three of them from south carolina, killed two of them today. enough is enough. so, let s use every tool in the tool box to go after them at their source. anything to do on china and precursor chemicals? because china is now not cooperating. absolutely. so, let s look at this way. what s the likelihood that the communist chinese party is unaware of the fact that they have fentanyl precursor drug factories in china and they don t know it? zero. so, let s get tough on mexico. let s start using the military like we did in colombia, regarding fentanyl. let s start blowing up some of these labs and putting people in jail longer, and tell china, that you are part of the
and it s increasingly becoming a reality for so many. and it starts with stopping fentanyl and for law enforcement, borders like this one and really across the san diego area, it is crucial. they re seeing this major influx. in fact, out of all the fentanyl that s seized across this country at u.s. borders, more than half are seized in the san diego area. so it is significant here. and border crossings like this one are continuing to see that pressure. but they re also saying, this is coming from u.s. officials that i ve been speaking with, it s not just the u.s. law enforcement that has to do something here. china plays a role in this because that s where the chemical ingredients come from. as does mexico, because that s where the cartel members are cooking this all up. and so, it brought us to question the mexican law enforcement and the military there in particular. they say, despite allegations of corruption and that they re not doing enough, that they are doing something. so we sa
the head of the cartel, el chapo is in prison in the united states, he was sinaloa, his son is running it. and they just keep going, though. so, in this moment in time, you know, the question i ask everyday is how can we save lives. it is not a war on drugs. it is a fight to save lives. so we have shifted completely how we operate. we ve gone from targeting high-value targets we call them. hvts, like el chapo, the head of the organization. to now targeting the entire criminal networks. and we are now tracking thousands of members of those two cartels, associates, facilitators in more than 40 countries around the world. so it s not cartel gangs in mexico itself. it s lawyers and business people and people who are working for the cartels in the united states and elsewhere? we are actively investigating the entire supply chain. so starting with chinese precursor chemical companies, to the cartels in mexico making the
direct war, u.s. military and drug cartels, which is complete nonsense. we can t violate mexican sovereignty in any way. the cooperation with mexican law enforcement authorities is inadequate and we need more resources and more attention. so if you re a member of the family of one of these folks who got kidnapped and, god forbid, got killed, understanding the controls that the drug cartels hold in mexico, what does even finding which cartel is responsible, who within that cartel is responsible, and bringing them to justice looks like? is it even possible? yeah, i think so. if we amp up the pressure on mexico, stop all tourists into mexico within a week, the cartels would surrender some of their operatives symbolically.
the generosity of the government of bangladesh and the hospitality of the people in hosting rohingya refugees, now that we are in the sixth year of this protracted crisis. we remain committed to working towards durable solution to the crisis and will continue to partner with the government of bangladesh, the rohingya community, host communities, and people inside burma to ensure coordinated and well supported response to this humanitarian crisis. the international community must remain steadfast in our commitment to alleviating the suffering of the world s most vulnerable people including through the rohingya crisis response. with that happy to take questions. can i just ask you to extrapolate on what you said about mexico. you re saying, yes, you have now been able to confirm two of the four were killed? that s correct. and that the other and that other two are now back in the u.s., the two survivors? the two survivors have been