OPINION:
As if we needed another glaring reason to build the border wall, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador — who has been in the back pocket of El Chapo’s drug cartel since his failed presidential bid in 2006 — has declared the end of his country’s drug war. “There is no war. Officially, there is no more war,” he said this week.
There was a raging river of drugs pouring over our border when the Mexican government at least acted like it was serious about stemming the flow. Now the government is simply sending up the white flag of surrender and telegraphing to America, “You’re on your own.” Imagine what this change will do to the amount of toxic poisons we see coming over.
If the wall is not built immediately, our country will be totally taken advantage of — not just by criminal illegal aliens, but by poisonous, addictive drugs as well. And the more powerful the drug cartels will become in an already corrupt, defeated and indifferent host country with which we share a border.
EUGENE R. DUNN
Medford, N.Y.
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