"Under the Trump Administration, we're finally treating the cartels as the core national security threat that they really are... past administrations have tried to mitigate this threat — and our objective is to ELIMINATE it."

"91 tons of drugs have been seized as a result of this task force... this would be filling four eighteen-wheelers—FOUR—all with drugs, just in the last month."

I'm so proud of the work that was done just in the September surge... we had over 400 operations that brought 3,200 terrorists to justice... fentanyl has been cut down by 50% coming into this country over our borders.

"Our department has spent over two decades defending other homelands — and we're very proud to be defending our own

Morale is sky-high, and continues to be, because they're proud to be defending their own communities, their own state, and their own country."

"Just this last week, our national counterterrorism center supported, through actionable intelligence to both U.S. law enforcement as well as Mexican law enforcement, the arrest of a Sinaloa Cartel boss... as well as his top 3 money launderers."

"Those aren't numbers, those are lives... enough fentanyl to kill over 200 million Americans gone — evaporated — off our streets permanently."

No necesitamos una declaración de guerra, simplemente mataremos a las personas que traen drogas a nuestro territorio.

Los vamos a matar. Van a quedar como muertos.

“Colombia es un antro de drogas. Es un antro de drogas, y lo ha sido durante mucho tiempo.

Tienen un líder pésimo allá ahora, un tipo malo, un matón. Pero producen cocaína a niveles que nunca habíamos visto y la venden aquí de nuevo.

Y no se van a salir con la suya por mucho más tiempo. No vamos a tolerarlo por mucho más tiempo. Colombia está muy mal.”

"In the world of the Caribbean, the deficiencies are so great that people dedicated to fishing and the use of the lancha (speedboats) end up providing services to drug trafficking," said Petro.