On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” DEA Administrator Anne Milgram stated that the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel and the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) are “essentially working openly in Mexico” and “poisoning Americans at record rates” with fentanyl and meth. Milgram also stated that Mexico knows this is happening, “and they need to work to stop it.”

Milgram stated, “I think there are two things that are really important: The first is for everyone to understand what we see every day at the DEA, which is that these two Mexican drug cartels, Sinaloa and CJNG, are poisoning Americans at record rates. We lost 107,622 Americans last year. These two cartels are primarily responsible for the fentanyl and the methamphetamine that is flooding into the United States and is killing people. The second piece on Sinaloa and CJNG is that these two cartels, essentially, are working from China, where they are purchasing these chemicals that they’re using now to make into fentanyl and methamphetamine. These are not plant-based drugs anymore. It is a different and deadlier drug threat than we have ever seen in our country. Those two cartels are operating throughout Mexico. Sinaloa in 15 of the 32 Mexican states, CJNG, as we call it, in 23 of those 32 states. They’re essentially working openly in Mexico to take those chemicals and synthesize the fentanyl and meth.”