U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is launching Operation Plaza Spike, an operation that targets the gangs and cartels in Mexico. This operation is the next step in CBP’s Strategy to Combat Fentanyl and Other Synthetic Drugs, a wholeofgovernment and international effort to anticipate, identify, mitigate, and disrupt illicit synthetic drug producers, suppliers, and traffickers.

Operation Plaza Spike targets a natural chokepoint in the flow of fentanyl trafficking, starting at the plaza located south of Nogales, Arizona. By limiting the amount of illegal drugs, particularly fentanyl, from entering the U.S. and also limiting the number of illegal weapons heading southbound into the hands of the cartels.

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