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First up though.

Today the Justice Department is announcing significant enforcement actions against the largest,

most violent and most prolific fentanyl trafficking operation in the world.

That operation is run by the Central Law of the Channel. In April, America's Attorney General,

Merrick Garland announced that the United States Department of Justice had indicted four

sons of El Chapo, the imprisoned head of the Sineloah cartel which prosecutors claim is one of the

biggest drug trafficking organizations in Mexico. The Justice Department is attacking every aspect

of the cartel's operations. We have charged suppliers in China who self-fett and all precursors to

the cartel. The charges relate to bringing the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl into the United

States. It was part of a larger push to crack down on fentanyl trafficking from Mexican drug cartels

as overdose deaths caused by the substance rise in the United States.

Money launders who enable the cartel to fund its operations and the cartel's leaders,

who are sons of the now imprisoned former head of the cartel known as El Chapo.

Eight of those defendants are now in the cartel's hands known as the Chappitas Deny the

Invitement Saligation. Drug cartels in Mexico used to mostly trafficked marijuana and cocaine

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