Donald Trump was handed a mandate from voters to secure the southern border.
He’s willing to play hardball to make sure that it gets done.
And Mexico’s President waived the white flag of surrender in this massive fight with Donald Trump.
Donald Trump threatens to use the military on the Mexican drug cartels
President-elect Donald Trump has made it his top priority to secure the southern border when he returns to the White House.
Securing the border requires the cooperation of Mexico.
Trump used the “Remain in Mexico” policy successfully during his first term to keep asylum seekers from spending years waiting in the United States for their cases to be heard.
He’s putting every option on the table after illegal aliens and deadly drugs like fentanyl poured across the southern border under President Joe Biden.
The Mexican drug cartels hit the jackpot during the Biden Presidency with their drug trafficking and human smuggling operations.
Trump announced that he would slap every product imported from Mexico with a 25% tariff unless the country did more to curb the flow of illegal aliens and drugs.
He sent shockwaves in Mexico when he promised to use the American military against the cartels during the campaign.
Trump’s pick for National Security Advisor, Representative Mike Waltz (R-FL), supports using the military against the cartels.
Waltz, a former Army Green Beret, introduced a bill in 2023 that would have authorized military force to be used against the cartels.
Trump’s “Border Czar” Tom Homan and Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth support precision strikes by the military in Mexico.
Mexico’s President panics over the American military going after drug cartels
Mexico’s socialist President Claudia Sheinbaum told the media that American troops wouldn’t be entering the country.
“There won’t be an invasion,” Sheinbaum said. “It’s not going to happen.”
She’s stepped up Mexico’s efforts to secure the border after Trump threatened to play hardball with her.
The Mexican military made the largest single fentanyl bust in the country’s history in the crime-ridden state of Sinaloa.
Authorities confiscated 20 million doses of fentanyl with an estimated street value of nearly $400 million.
“It is the largest seizure of fentanyl pills that has ever been made,” Sheinbaum said.
She also sent her security minister to get the state of Sinaloa under control.
Rival factions of the Sinaloa cartel have been battling for control of the drug trafficking in the state.
Corruption in the police and the military is one of the biggest obstacles for Mexico to crack down on the cartels.
Mexican authorities told the Wall Street Journal that the country is in negotiations to create an elite security unit vetted and trained by the United States to deploy against the cartels.
Waltz previously pointed to the success that Green Berets had with an advice and assist role in Colombia at the height of the country’s cartel violence.
“Green Berets helped, with just a few dozen soldiers, the Colombian government take down the Medellin cartel, take down the FARC. Remember, they were bombing airliners, they were threatening to overthrow the entire government. We have to take the same approach with the cartels in Mexico, Sinaloa, and Jalisco, that control nearly a third of the country fighting the Mexican Army, not the police, to a standstill,” Waltz told Fox News in October.
Donald Trump hasn’t taken office yet and he’s already getting the Mexican government to take action to secure the border.
Stay tuned to Unmuzzled News for any updates to this ongoing story.
