The CIA is deploying unmanned drones over Mexico to search for fentanyl labs run by drug cartels after the Trump administration declared cartels are terrorist organizations.

To combat drug cartels, the CIA is ramping up secret drone flights over Mexico, The New York Times reported Tuesday. This ‘covert’ drone program began under the Biden administration and has not previously been disclosed,

The CIA under President Donald Trump has been covertly flying MQ-9 Reaper drones over Mexico to spy on drug cartels, current and former officials familiar with the matter told CNN, part of Trump’s dramatic reorientation of national security assets to the US southern border.