Letters of marque and reprisal remain a valuable tool at our disposal to destroy America’s enemies. And the cartels are enemies that need to be destroyed.
Donald Trump is aggressively enforcing America’s border and immigration laws after four years of chaos under Joe Biden. As part of his push to secure our country, the president has designated criminal Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations.
This classification is long overdue. Drug overdoses killed more than 80,000 Americans in 2024 alone, many caused by synthetic opioids manufactured and smuggled through our southern border by Mexican cartels. That’s more American deaths than through the course of the entire Vietnam War.
There is nothing old-fashioned about using asymmetric warfare to dispatch terrorist cells — and there is no concern greater than protecting our citizens.
The cartels are responsible for murder and crime in cities across America, as well as untold human suffering by the illegal immigrants they help traffic into our country, with women and children often enduring horrendous sexual assault and abuse along the way. These criminal syndicates deserve utter destruction.