ABC News just spent two nights with members of one of the largest cartels in Mexico as they explained their operations in a town just across the border from the US.
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the Mexican Department of Foreign Relations officially estimates that somewhere between 70% and 90% of guns in Mexico originated from and passed through the U.S.
"Because we all know that in the U.S. it is easy to find them. They sell them in stores and here in Mexico you don't find that," a cartel member said. "You have to keep a very, very careful record [here]. Not everyone [in Mexico] is approved for these types of weapons and not just anyone is sold or given a license. In the U.S., yes."
Trump is seemingly not worried about American guns being smuggled south but he is very concerned about fentanyl flowing to the north.
Shortly after the cartel unloaded the guns, they loaded five sandwich-sized packages of fentanyl into that same SUV, stashed in a hidden compartment beneath the center console.