Over the course of 10 days, spy planes flew at least 18 missions over the southwestern U.S. and the international airspace around the Baja peninsula, according to three officials.

The U.S. military has significantly increased its surveillance of Mexican drug cartels over the past two weeks, with sophisticated spy planes flying at least 18 missions over the southwestern U.S. and in international airspace around the Baja peninsula,

Some of the US’s most sophisticated spy planes that typically monitor the Chinese and Russians are now flooding the air targeting Mexican drug cartels as part of President Trump’s crackdown, a new report says.