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Mexican Ambassador To U.S. Implies Americans At Fault For Increased Cartel Violence

Hank Berrien
Mexican Ambassador To U.S. Implies Americans At Fault For Increased Cartel Violence
Photo by Luis Antonio Rojas/Bloomberg via Getty Images

On Wednesday, in the wake of the murder of nine Americans in Mexico on Monday, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley issued a blunt tweet challenging the Mexican government, writing, “With Mexico, enough is enough. US government should impose sanctions on Mexican officials, including freezing assets, who won’t confront cartels. Cartels are flooding MO w/ meth, trafficking children, & openly slaughtering American citizens. And Mexico looks the other way.”

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