President Trump is upping the ante against the terrorist drug cartels who have been poisoning America and endangering its citizens for decades in an unprecedented fashion.

The New York Times reported Friday that Trump ‘secretly’ signed a directive ordering the Pentagon to start using military force against certain Latin American drug cartels.

The order provides an official basis for the possibility of direct military operations at sea and on foreign soil against cartels. This means that US troops could find themselves in countries like Mexico battling the Sinaloa Cartel, for example.

As TGP readers know, Trump has long floated the possibility of sending the most powerful fighting force on the planet right into the home turf of the foreign drug lords. The president also previously offered to send troops to Mexico to fight the notorious cartels.

In addition to Mexico, communist Venezuela has refused to lift a finger to combat the problem.

Instead, both countries have dumped r*pists, murderers, and gangbangers right on American soil. Tragically, innocent Americans such as Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray have paid the price.

The White House refused to confirm or deny the Times report. Anna Kelly, a White House spokeswoman, sent an email to the paper which said “President Trump’s top priority is protecting the homeland, which is why he took the bold step to designate several cartels and gangs as foreign terrorist organizations.”

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in office aimed at dismantling the drug cartels that have been terrorizing America.

The executive order signed by Trump designates these groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs).

Specifically, it targets notorious cartels such as the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, as well as violent gangs like MS-13 and Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua.

In February, the State Department designated Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua, El Salvador’s Mara Salvatrucha (known as MS-13), and several more organizations as foreign terrorist organizations.

The Biden administration’s open-border policies have only emboldened these criminal organizations. By dismantling Trump-era measures like the “Remain in Mexico” policy and halting border wall construction, Biden effectively handed the cartels a golden ticket to expand their influence.

Now, President Trump is willing to destroy them once and for all by any means necessary.

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