It’s A War: Trump Takes On Cartels In Border Fight
Teh article discusses the challenges and perceived threats at the U.S.-Mexico border, attributing them to the Biden administration’s policies and alleging complicity in an “invasion” of the country by drug cartels and gangs. It describes recent warnings about roadside explosives linked to these cartels and emphasizes calls for the designation of cartels as terrorist organizations by politicians like Rep. Chip Roy. As the Biden administration’s open-border policies are criticized, former President Trump’s return to a tougher stance on border security is highlighted, including plans to deploy thousands of troops to the southern border to address illegal immigration and cartel violence. The article presents the situation as a national security issue, arguing for aggressive measures to combat drug trafficking and violent crime. It concludes by praising the Trump administration’s immediate actions and strategy to restore border security, reflecting the sentiments of many Americans as seen in recent elections.
Cleaning up the mess that the Biden administration left at America’s borders isn’t merely going to take changes in policy. It’s going to require a commitment to war. And a multi-front war at that.
President Joe Biden and the leftist machine over the past four years were complicit in the outright invasion of the United States, planting combatants bent on killing Americans and destroying the country by any means necessary.
Officials are warning of roadside explosives found on roadways around Tamaulipas, Mexico, just across the border from Brownsville, Texas. The bombs reportedly are the work of drug cartels, according to multiple media outlets.
One flyer in Spanish includes photos of explosives and urges travelers between the U.S. and Mexico border, “Don’t touch, don’t move, don’t manipulate,” according to KABB Fox in San Antonio.
Manuel Chacon, a spokesman for the city of Brownsville, did not return The Federalist’s requests for comment. An official from U.S. Customs and Border Protection referred questions to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which did not return a request for comment.
‘Campaign of Violence and Terror’
As the cartels step up their bloody battles against each other, there is growing concern the latest incidents of improvised explosive devices found on roadways leading into the United States may be retaliation for Trump’s war on the cartels.
“This a brazen attack on our country, and drives home the fact that these cartels are clearly terrorist organizations and that we should treat them as such,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said in a statement Monday to The Federalist. “President Trump was right to designate them as FTOs [Foreign Terrorist Organizations] — a policy I started pushing for years ago as a House freshman. Now Congress needs to back him up, codify the policy, and ensure that future administrations can’t undo it.”
Later in the day, Fox News reported that U.S. Border Patrol agents and suspected cartel members traded gunfire at the southern border on Monday, near Fronton Texas.
Roy said he will be reintroducing FTO language similar to one of his first bills in 2019.
In one of his first acts in a robust first week as president, Trump signed an executive order declaring that international drug cartels “constitute a national-security threat beyond that posed by traditional organized crime” in working with other terrorist organizations and antagonistic foreign governments.
“The Cartels have engaged in a campaign of violence and terror throughout the Western Hemisphere that has not only destabilized countries with significant importance for our national interests but also flooded the United States with deadly drugs, violent criminals, and vicious gangs,” the order states.
Trump lays out the reality on the ground, that the cartels “functionally control, through a campaign of assassination, terror, rape, and brute force nearly all illegal traffic across the southern border of the United States.” And they act as “quasi-governmental entities, controlling nearly all aspects of society.”
“Their activities, proximity to, and incursions into the physical territory of the United States pose an unacceptable national security risk to the United States,” the order states.
‘Defense of the Territorial Integrity’
Biden’s open-borders policies over the past four years have allowed untold numbers of cartel and gang members and their beholden allies a free pass to terrorize Americans. A congressional oversight report found the cartels raked in an estimated $13 billion a year through smuggling and human trafficking alone. That’s larger than the gross domestic product of several nations.
Hundreds of U.S. military service members are at or on their way to the U.S. southern border following Trump’s order last week declaring a national emergency at southern entry points. The Trump administration has called on the deployment of as many as 10,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to deal with the invasion of illegal immigrants. Some Pentagon insiders reportedly have expressed concerns about the aggressive timelines.
Roy told The Federalist last week that he had heard initial reports of some Pentagon officials grousing about the military resources requested at the border in a time of U.S. commitments around the world. Roy said if the commander in chief says he needs U.S. forces in a national emergency, the Department of Defense needs to listen.
“If he says he needs 10,000 at the border, than the fricking Pentagon ought to send 10,000 to the border and figure out how to move their fricking $900 billion bureaucracy to go deal with the duties elsewhere, because the last time I checked there was a crap-ton more than 10,000 members of the Armed Forces,” the Texas congressman said on “The Federalist Radio Hour.”
It seems the DOD has snapped to attention. The Pentagon announced last week that it would immediately send 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border in a support role to Customs and Border Protection. Administration officials said the call-up was just the beginning.
Trump’s newly confirmed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reported for duty Monday and told media outlets that whatever is needed to protect the border “will be provided.”
“The Defense Department will support the defense of the territorial integrity of the United States of America’s southern border, including reservists, National Guardsmen and active-duty [personnel] in compliance with the Constitution and the laws of our land, and the directives of the commander in chief,” Hegseth said.
What is needed is exactly what a majority of Americans want. At least that’s what many said at the polls in November.
“This is something President Trump campaigned on,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said last week. “The American people have been waiting for such a time as this — for our Department of Defense to actually implement homeland security seriously. This is a No. 1 priority for the American people.”
‘An Example of Sanctuary Cities’
Meanwhile, open-border leftists and the accomplice media, as expected, are at war with Trump’s efforts to restore the border and national security.
“The border is painted as violent, as an invasion, as a dangerous place,” Adriana Jasso of the American Friends Service Committee, a leftist group that pushes asylum for illegal immigrants, told NBC San Diego.
It’s no painting. Drug cartels, coyotes, drug mules, terrorists, literal foreign combatants have made the southwest border a very violent place. The crush of (officially) nearly 11 million illegal alien encounters at the U.S. borders and sweeping asylum over Biden’s tenure in office have subjected all of America to very real national security threats.
President Trump is wasting no time in confronting those threats. He has acted swiftly in ordering federal agents to round up and ship out the worst of the worst illegal immigrants. Immigration and Customs Enforcement made more than 950 arrests on Sunday in several U.S. cities. Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, and conservative TV host Dr. Phil McGraw were on hand in sanctuary city Chicago as ICE agents busted a Thai national allegedly convicted of sexually abusing children. The suspect at one point turned to McGraw and said, “You’re Dr. Phil.” He recognized him from TV.
“This is an example of sanctuary cities. We’ve got an illegal alien, right? Convicted of sex crimes involving children and he’s walking the streets of Chicago,” Homan says in the video, posted on McGraw’s X account.
On Wednesday, ICE agents and Removal Operations in Boston arrested illegal immigrant Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles, a member of a violent Haitian street gang. Charles’ rap sheet, according to the agency, includes convictions of drug, weapons, and assault and battery crimes. During the Boston bust, recorded by Fox News, an unidentified Haitian gang member can be heard praising Democrat presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama while yelling obscenities about Trump.
“I’m not going back to Haiti!” a man being arrested screams out on the recording. “F… Trump! You feel me? Yo, Biden forever, bro! Thank Obama for everything that he did for me, bro!”
Quite a telling endorsement.
ICE agents and assisting law enforcement arrested nearly 2,700 illegal immigrants in Trump’s first week in office, according to NBC News.
It’s a war. The commander-in-chief understands that fact, and he sounds like he’s in the fight for the long haul.
Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
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