Republican nominee said ‘No one wins in either country when … illegal weapons and cash flow from the United States into Mexico’, which could upset the NRA
For years, Mexican politicians have said lax US gun laws help to arm the country’s drug cartels.
At a press conference with Donald Trump on Wednesday in Mexico City, President Enrique Peña Nieto said: “Every year, thousands of weapons and millions of US dollars in cash enter illegally into Mexico from the north, strengthening the cartels and other criminal organizations that create violence in Mexico.”
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