Donald Trump is ramping up secret CIA drone flights over Mexico as he takes aim at violent foreign drug cartels.
The existence of the drone program has never been disclosed before, although it began under the Biden administration, U.S. officials told the New York Times.
One official disclosed that the expansion of drone flights under Trump is seeing them going 'well into sovereign Mexico.'
Boosting the usage of drones to surveil Mexican drug cartels' operations is a quick way for Trump to make good on his campaign promise to 'wage war on the cartels' for smuggling deadly fentanyl into the U.S.
In the first days of his second term Trump signed an executive order to crack down on the cartels by labeling them foreign terrorist threats, a move that will make it easier for his administration to target the criminal gangs.
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