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statements-releases/2024-12/2024-12-06-statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-u-s-mexico-security-cooperation.md

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+date: '2024-12-06'
+published_time: 2024-12-06 22:27:48-05:00
+source_url: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/06/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-u-s-mexico-security-cooperation/
+tags: statements-releases
+title: "Statement from President Joe\_Biden on U.S.-Mexico Security\_Cooperation"
+---
+
+As Commander in Chief, I have one solemn responsibility: protect the
+American people from harm. That’s why, over the last four years, I made
+beating the opioid epidemic a central focus of my Unity Agenda at
+home—and my cooperation with world leaders abroad.  
+
+Earlier this week, we saw the impact: Mexican security forces seized
+more than twenty million doses of illicit fentanyl—enough to kill 15
+percent of all Americans. I want to thank President Claudia Sheinbaum
+for her leadership and partnership that made this possible, and the many
+military and law enforcement officials on both sides of the border who
+have dedicated their lives to countering fentanyl, disrupting
+traffickers, and saving their fellow citizens. It matters.  
+
+And we won’t let up. Under my Administration, we have seized more
+fentanyl at our border in the last two years, than the previous five
+years combined. We’ve put dozens of major cartel leaders and money
+launderers behind bars. And latest data shows over a 14 percent drop in
+overdose deaths across the nation—that’s the largest decrease on
+record.  
+
+These aren’t just facts and figures. They are families. Families who
+don’t have to bear the loss of a child, or parent, or spouse. So today,
+with partners around the world—including Mexico—we vow to double down on
+our work to size more drugs. To stop more traffickers. To save more
+lives. And to we make it clear: enough is enough.
+
+\###