With Title 42 set to finish subsequent week, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco mentioned she is “concerned about the increase in illegal immigration” in addition to “human smuggling” and “drug smuggling.”
“There is a growing concern that there will now be a tsunami of fentanyl flowing through the southern border when Title 42 ends next week. Is that something you’re concerned about?” “CBS Evening News” anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell requested Monaco in an interview Wednesday.
“Absolutely we’re concerned about that, which is why we are focusing, as I said, relentlessly on these two ruthless criminal drug organizations, the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel,” Monaco mentioned.
Monaco, who oversees the Drug Enforcement Administration, mentioned the company is utilizing “intelligence,” “cyber means,” “informants” and “data” to “attack” the availability chain.
A court docket ruling invalidated Title 42, a public well being order that the U.S. has used to expel migrants en masse from the border in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Justice Department mentioned it could enchantment the ruling.
Watch extra of Norah O’Donnell’s interview with Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco tonight on the “CBS Evening News.”
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