I don't think we're seeing de-escalation from the unhinged leader of Colombia right now, and

I don't think the president, frankly, is interested in that at this point.

He spoke on this yesterday, and I don't have anything to add to his comments.

That was not the sole reason, no.

I think that Secretary Rubio felt that was actually a productive call.

The President wants to make sure that a meeting between himself and President Putin will be a good use of his time.

We're here today to discuss a sweeping, unprecedented, and historically successful operation that my administration has carried out in recent weeks to prosecute and remove foreign drug cartels from foreign soil.

Homeland Security Task Force brought all federal, state, and local partners together to achieve the national policy goal of eliminating the cartel presence in America once and for all.

The results are in its early, and the results are spectacular.

In a matter of weeks, the task force has made the largest number of arrests of cartel leaders, operatives, and gang members in American history, more than 3,000 and counting.

That includes members of the ultra-violent New Generation Cartel, the Sinaloa Cartel, the LNFM Cartel, MS-13 Cartel, and you know MS-13, the gang, and Tren de Aragua.

That's a group of real garbage that we have to deal with, that we shouldn't have to deal with.

It should now be clear to the entire world that the cartels are the ISIS of the Western Hemisphere, in addition to their monstrous violence, such as cutting off heads, burning their enemies alive, and burning innocent people alive, too, by the way.

The cartels control large swaths of territory. They maintain vast arsenals of weapons and soldiers, and they use extortion, murder, kidnapping to exercise political and economic control.

Thank you very much, Joe Biden, for allowing that to happen.

Biden surrendered the country to the cartels.

And don't worry, it gets better. We're taking it back.