In what could be a significant escalation of U.S. pressure on Mexico, the Trump administration has begun to impose travel restrictions and other sanctions on prominent Mexican politicians whom it believes are linked to drug corruption, U.S. officials said.
My theory is that they need operatives to function as a new “Murder Inc.”, i.e. a new clandestine criminal organization that can carry out the overtly illegal acts like murder, extortion, etc. There’s no rational good-faith explanation for this.