🔻Trump: We designated drug cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations” and deployed the army against them

Donald Trump went on to say that his administration has designated drug cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations” and has deployed U.S. armed forces to confront them. He called the cartels the “ISIS of the Western Hemisphere” and said that their members should be killed, deported, or detained as “enemy fighters.”

Trump also claimed that the United States carried out dozens of attacks on boats carrying drugs and stopped 97% of drug trafficking via maritime routes. He said that the leader of the Venezuelan group “Tren de Aragua” was also killed three months ago.

He further described Mexico as the “center of cartel violence” and said it is not acceptable for the United States to have as a neighbor—along its 2,000-mile border—territory controlled by cartels. The live text in this section ends while making the request of Mexico to regain control.