The Trump administration has started planning for on-the-ground military and intelligence operations on Mexican soil to pursue drug cartels as part of what President Donald Trump has described as an “armed conflict” with narcotics trafficking organizations.
Personnel who would be involved in the operations from the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command and the Central Intelligence Agency are already in “the early stages of training” for the missions, which two current U.S. officials described as not imminent, NBC News reported Monday.
