Former Acting ICE Director Says ‘the Game Is Up’ for Cartels amid Trump’s Border Crackdown

He said he former acting director and former d h as deputy assistant secretary John, the great to have you on the show on to play some sound here from the secretary of state Marco Rubio. He said this about targeting cartels as terrorists.
Their behaviors going to have to change one way or another, but it allows us to now target what they’re, operating and and to use other elements of American power intelligence agencies, the Department of Defense, whatever to target these groups of we have an opportunity to do it. We have to start treating them as armed terrorist organizations, not simply drug dealing organizations.
I think it’s a proper assessment. I don’t know what you think about this Jonathan, but it’s interesting, because these cartels are no longer just providing these illegal products by the by the thousands of pounds they’re killing thousands of Americans you’re exactly right and if you think about it, just or in the Biden Administration. Four hundred thousand people died of overdose death.
Yes, just in that four year term, and as we know, there are just like complete dereliction of duty on the border as well as taken it. So the cartels and just for some contacts at two hundred thousand more than during the first Trump Administration. So a massive increase. We need to take it to them because have people are dying and President Trump isn’t going to just stay by and just say: oh, this is now the status quo hundred thousand Americans who you’re going to die of overdoses. This is unacceptable, he’s going to take it to them and there’s another benefit to this by by even talking about this. That messaging is so strong on this. This will inspire cooperation from all these countries where we may be acting.
And, so all of these will be a good thing and will practice at the end of the year. Where are these to overdose? Tesco, I’m interested in in you know when you get pushback on this, because the the upside is enormous on this in the downside is also enormous. I mean, if you don’t, do this and you continue to let tens of thousands hundreds of thousands Americans die. I mean it is. This is something that there is a fix to at least there’s some. Whatever remedy.
To this, if we go forward.
Yeah exactly- and it’s almost like, we’ve had for years, where we weren’t even trying to do something during the Bush Administration yeah, it’s not acceptable because a hundred thousand people you’re dying, those are those people, their families, their communities. Everyone in this country is affected by this. So it’s time to take it to these cartels and they’re good days are over. They had their hate under the by demonstration, but but the game is up and the Trump Administration’s going after them, and I think this is very effective, not only substantively, but I think that messaging is quite clear on this meantime: let’s bring the subject back to some action by federal agents in this country. Here’s dear just secretary Christie, know.
The debate over so called sanctuary policies has real consequences and consequences for our law enforcement officers, but also for the families that live here in the businesses that are just trying to provide for their community governor pritzker, mayor Johnson or answering that question every single day of who should be our priority. Who should be our responsibility and over and over again they’re choosing criminals.
Pritzker and Johnson, or just two names you add newsome to that you had care and bastard that you’ve got. I mean the list goes on Jonathan, it’s one of those things where you know: they’re siding with criminals and it’s being normalized you’re exactly right, and if you think about it, the one of the most powerful constituency in the Democratic Party right now seems to be Italy.
Eagle aliens, an illegal alien criminals is truly astonishing that they would fight so hard to keep criminals in this country and remember they don’t just affect the that communities of the sanctuary. Cities remember. Lake and Riley was arrested in New York. So if there was no enforcement back, then she’d still be alive. Her killer was arrested up in New York sanctuary city, so these affect all of us and it’s so shameful that the Democrats can’t even agree to kick out serious violent criminals because they think it’s more politically viable to fit like Donald Trump as well as or bring in as many illegal aliens as possible. It’s a true disgrace. If you think about it,.
Yeah jonathon, thank you for coming on. We appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you