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Trump is discussing military strikes against Mexican drug cartels, Pete Hegseth suggests
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump are open to using military force like airstrikes and special forces against drug cartels in Mexico.Trump has long took issue with the criminal rings and he vowed during his campaign 'to wage war on the cartels.' Just on Monday some suspected cartel members brazenly opened fire on U.S. Border Patrol who were monitoring a drug and human smuggling hot zone at the Texas-Mexico border. The agents returned fire into Mexico, though no on was injured. For their role in producing deadly drugs bound for the U.S., like fentanyl, the president has said he would take the fight to the cartels to halt the drugs flowing into America. Speaking with his former Fox News colleagues Friday morning, Hegseth revealed that Trump is instructing him to make available any resources needed to go after the cartels. Host Brian Kilmeade asked Hegseth: 'If we find that they continue to fire at Border Control and they continue to put fentanyl into our country, as a secretary of defense, are you permitted now to go after them in Mexico or where they are?' 'Brian, I don’t want to get ahead of the president and I won’t,' the secretary started. 'That’s ultimately going to be his decision.' 'But let me be clear,' he said. 'All options will be on the table if we’re dealing with what are designated to be foreign terrorist organizations who are specifically targeting Americans on our border.' Posted by: Skidmark 2025-02-01 |
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