FBI Director Christopher Wray told a congressional panel on June 4 that the United States will need a “whole lot more from Mexico” to deal with drug cartels and stop the flow of narcotics into the country.

Speaking to a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, Mr. Wray was asked about Mexico’s cooperation with the United States in light of the country’s electing a new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, to succeed Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

“Let me put it this way: While we have had some successes here and there in terms of extraditions and so forth, and I appreciate those, and I’m grateful to our Mexican partners for those … we need a whole lot more from Mexico than we’ve gotten in terms of shutting down the cartels and stopping the flow of the precursors,” Mr. Wray said, referring to precursor chemicals to manufacture illicit drugs.

He added: “I mean, I could go on and on. So, I’m grateful for the successes we have had, but we need a heck of a lot more.”

Also in the hearing, Mr. Wray made note of an FBI raid in New Mexico that found enough fentanyl to kill hundreds of thousands of people. Agents, he said, also found “hand grenades, ballistic vests, you know, the whole nine yards” during the raid.

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