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ššŗšøSOTU COUNTDOWN: This is what America FIRST leadership looks like.
@POTUSĀ designated violent cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, enabling our National Counterterrorism Center to deploy two decades of counterterrorism expertise against narco-terrorists.
We are dismantling their networks and protecting American lives.
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Tulsi Gabbard:
President Trump has already taken historic action,
immediately, to secure our borders in record time
and designated several cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations,
a move that has empowered our National Counterterrorism Center
here at ODNI to deploy over two decades of counter-terrorism
expertise towards detecting and deterring cartels and
gangsĀ like never before.
In just one year, this designation by President Trump prevented
more than 10,000 individuals with direct ties to
narcoterrorismĀ from accessing our country.
We work very closely with our partners at the federal, state and
local level. We assisted them in the aprehensions of several cartel
terrorists, including a Sinoaloa Cartel boss known as 'El Pato' who
allegedly led a vast network of drug trafficking, extortion,
kidnappingĀ and murder.
Another example is a CJNG (Jalisco New Generation Cartel)
baby-trafficker called, 'La Diabla' whoĀ
preyed on vulnerable pregnant women in Mexico, lured them toĀ
remote areas, cut out their babies, harvested their organs
and soldĀ these newborn babies.
These are just a few examples of the progress that's been madeĀ
toward ending the gang and cartel violence that's plagued the
American people, and put our lives at risk for far too long.Ā
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