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   SAFEGUARDING THE NATION: President Donald J. Trump is proceeding with   
   implementing tariffs on Canada and Mexico under the International   
   Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to combat the extraordinary threat   
   to U.S. national security, including our public health posed by unchecked   
   drug trafficking.   
      
   While President Trump gave both Canada and Mexico ample opportunity to   
   curb the dangerous cartel activity and influx of lethal drugs flowing into   
   our country, they have failed to adequately address the situation.   
   The flow of contraband drugs like fentanyl into the United States, through   
   illicit distribution networks, has created a national emergency, including   
   a public health crisis.   
      
   Mexican drug trafficking organizations, the world’s leading fentanyl   
   traffickers, operate unhindered due to an intolerable relationship with   
   the government of Mexico.   
      
   The government of Mexico has afforded safe havens for the cartels to   
   engage in the manufacturing and transportation of dangerous narcotics,   
   which collectively have led to the overdose deaths of hundreds of   
   thousands of American victims.   
      
   Mexican drug cartels are known for extreme brutality, corruption, and   
   control over entire regions of Mexico.   
      
   The Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels manufacture fentanyl in clandestine labs   
   they oversee in Mexico, in both powder form and pressed into fake pills,   
   and traffic it into the United States through the many entry points they   
   control. 97% of seizures occur at the U.S.-Mexico border.   
      
   Cartel violence, including armed drones and roadside IEDs, are coming in   
   closer and closer proximity to the U.S.-Mexico border as cartels are more   
   actively targeting one another as well as Mexican military and law   
   enforcement personnel.   
      
   This alliance with the Mexican government endangers the national security   
   of the United States, and we must eradicate the influence of these   
   dangerous cartels.   
      
   There is also a growing presence of Mexican cartels operating fentanyl and   
   nitazene synthesis labs in Canada.   
      
   A recent study recognized Canada’s heightened domestic production of   
   fentanyl, and its growing footprint within international narcotics   
   distribution.   
      
   Canada-based drug trafficking organizations maintain robust “super labs,”   
   mostly in rural and dense areas in western Canada, some of which can   
   produce 44 to 66 pounds of fentanyl weekly.   
      
   Last year’s northern border fentanyl seizures, though smaller than   
   Mexico’s, could kill 9.5 million Americans due to the drug’s potency—proof   
   of Canada’s growing role in this crisis.   
      
   Fentanyl seizures at the northern border in the first four months of this   
   fiscal year are quickly closing in on what was seized the entirety of   
   fiscal year 2022.   
      
   Both nations’ failure to arrest traffickers, seize drugs, or coordinate   
   with U.S. law enforcement constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat   
   to America’s security—demanding IEEPA action to force accountability and   
   protect American lives.   
      
   PRESIDENT TRUMP IS KEEPING HIS PROMISE TO STOP THE FLOOD OF ILLEGAL ALIENS   
   AND DRUGS:   
      
   When voters overwhelmingly elected Donald J. Trump as President, they gave   
   him a mandate to seal the border. That is exactly what he is doing.   
      
   The Biden Administration’s policies fueled the worst border crisis in U.S.   
   history.   
      
   More than 10 million illegal aliens attempted to enter the United States   
   under Biden’s leadership.   
      
   This problem is not confined to the southern border—encounters at the   
   northern border with Canada are rising as well.   
      
   The sustained influx of illegal aliens has profound consequences on every   
   aspect of our national life—overwhelming our schools, lowering our wages,   
   reducing our housing supply and raising rents, overcrowding our hospitals,   
   draining our welfare system, and causing crime.   
      
   Gang members, smugglers, human traffickers, and illegal drugs and   
   narcotics of all kinds are pouring across our borders and into our   
   communities.   
      
   Last fiscal year, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehended more   
   than 21,000 pounds of fentanyl at our borders, enough fentanyl to kill   
   more than 4 billion people.   
      
   Since 2023, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has seized more than   
   25,697 kilograms of fentanyl pills and more than 7,272 kilograms of   
   fentanyl powder at the southern border, and more than 659 kilograms of   
   fentanyl pills and more than 650 kilograms of fentanyl powder at the   
   northern border.   
      
   From 2021 to present, fentanyl has been the leading cause of drug overdose   
   deaths in the U.S., followed by methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin in   
   that order.   
      
   According to the CDC, 68 percent of all drug poisoning deaths in 2022 and   
   2023—216,294 total—were caused by synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl.   
   It is estimated that federal officials are only able to seize a fraction   
   of the fentanyl smuggled across the southern border.   
      
   More Americans are dying from fentanyl overdoses each year than the number   
   of American lives lost in the entirety of the Vietnam War.   
      
   BUILDING ON PAST SUCCESS:   
   President Trump continues to demonstrate his commitment to ensuring U.S.   
   trade policy serves the national interest.   
      
   As President Trump said in the Presidential Memorandum on American First   
   Trade Policy, trade policy is a critical component in national security.   
      
   President Trump promised in November to “sign all necessary documents to   
   charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the   
   United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders. This Tariff will remain in   
   effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal   
   Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!”   
      
   During his first term as President of the United States, President Trump   
   established the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the   
   Opioid Crisis and declared the Opioid Crisis a public health emergency.   
   President Trump also has a long record of putting America first on trade.   
   In his first term, President Trump successfully used threats of tariffs on   
   Mexico to help secure our border.   
      
   When our national security was threatened by a global oversupply of steel   
   and aluminum, President Trump took swift action to protect America’s   
   national security by implementing tariffs on imports of these goods.   
      
   https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-   
   donald-j-trump-proceeds-with-tariffs-on-imports-from-canada-and-mexico/   
      
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