Trump vows to use NAVY blockades to ‘wage war’ on drug cartels
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Donald Trump’s updated plan to address the southern border crisis should he win a second term in the White House in 2024 includes deploying the Navy to combat drug traffickers who use US waters to smuggle drugs into the country.
The announcement, released in the form of a nearly five-minute video and a statement afterward, came as President Joe Biden delivered his first speech devoted solely to the southern border crisis.
Trump wants to “wage war” against the cartels and has vowed to restore border policies that he says have brought drug smuggling to a 45-year low and vowed to take down drug cartels “just like we took down ISIS.” “.
“Every day, drug traffickers are using the waters of our region to ship their lethal positions to the United States,” he said in his video posted on Truth Social.
Former President Donald Trump laid out his plans to ‘wage war’ against drug cartels and send the US Navy to take on drug traffickers at sea in his immigration policy proposal for his campaign 2024.
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden on Thursday also detailed a plan to address migration in his first speech devoted to the southern border crisis. Vice President Kamala Harris attended the remarks.
The former president added: “In addition to restoring strong border security, I will deploy all necessary military assets, including the US Navy, to impose a full naval embargo on the cartels.”
Meanwhile, in Washington, DC, President Biden announced that he will continue to use COVID-19 restrictions to ‘quickly’ expel border crossers.
But he also said he would allow up to 30,000 people from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Haiti to enter the US by air on a monthly basis.
“We cannot stop people from making the trip,” Biden said in his remarks on Thursday. “But we can require them to come here in an orderly manner under American law.”
Trump has a less friendly approach to migration.
“Now is the time for the United States to wage war on the cartels,” the former president said in his video. ‘In this war, Joe Biden decided against the United States and with the cartels.’
Biden’s plan includes bringing up to 30,000 immigrants each month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to try to reduce illegal crossings. Pictured: Migrants from Venezuela wait in line to be processed by Border Patrol in El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday, January 4.
Trump’s plan includes sending the Navy to crack down on drug dealers and cartels in US waters.
“Biden’s open border policies are a deadly betrayal of our nation,” he continued. “When he is president, the policy of the United States will be to take down the cartels, just as we took down ISIS and the ISIS caliphate.”
Reuters reported ahead of Biden’s immigration speech on Thursday about the outline of the White House plan, which penalizes those who arrive on foot at the US-Mexico border, but also allows asylum seekers to enter the country.
“The legal avenues we are announcing today are generous, but at the same time there are serious consequences if they are circumvented,” a senior administration official told Reuters.
Biden also confirmed that he will make a border stop in El Paso, Texas, on Sunday, as he must be in Mexico for the ‘three amigos’ summit on Monday and Tuesday.
Biden announced a plan on Thursday that will allow immigrants to legally enter the US by air, hoping to reduce the number of illegal border crossings.
Biden said the delay was due to waiting to see how the courts would treat Title 42, the COVID-19 pandemic order that allowed for the expedited removal of migrants.
“I wanted to make sure I knew what the outcome or at least the close outcome was on Title 42 before I went down,” Biden said.
Republicans have been calling on him for months to make the trip.
“Republicans haven’t taken this seriously at all, come on,” the president said.
Biden pushed Republicans, who assumed a majority in the House on Tuesday, though they still don’t have a speaker, to work with him to pass new immigration laws.
“We need more resources to secure the border, once again the extreme Republicans have said no,” Biden complained. “But if extremist Republicans continue to demagogy on this issue…I have only one option left: act on my own.”
Biden had sparked a trip to the border Wednesday as he traveled to and from Ohio and Kentucky to promote his bipartisan infrastructure bill.
“That is my intention, we are working on the details now,” he said on the tarmac as he was leaving the Cincinnati area when asked if a border trip would take place before his meetings with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the Canadian Prime Minister Justin. Trudeau.
Landing at the White House, he said he hoped to see “peace and security” on the southern border.
‘No, I’m going to see what’s going on. I’m going to give a speech tomorrow about border security and you’ll hear more about that tomorrow,’ she said.