1. 🧵🧵Trump’s War on the Cartels & Human Trafficking
What the media won’t say: Mexican cartels aren’t just drug lords — they run the largest human trafficking operation in the Western Hemisphere. Trump is taking the fight directly to them. Here’s how.
What the media won’t say: Mexican cartels aren’t just drug lords — they run the largest human trafficking operation in the Western Hemisphere. Trump is taking the fight directly to them. Here’s how.
2. Cartel human smuggling is a multi-billion dollar black market.
•Migrants pay $5,000–$20,000 per person
•Cartels earned over $13 billion in 2022 alone (per Homeland Security est.)
•Children, women, and families are trafficked, raped, extorted — then dumped across the U.S. border.
•Migrants pay $5,000–$20,000 per person
•Cartels earned over $13 billion in 2022 alone (per Homeland Security est.)
•Children, women, and families are trafficked, raped, extorted — then dumped across the U.S. border.
3. Trump’s First Term: What Was Already Done
•Built 450+ miles of border wall
•Ended “Catch and Release”
•Enacted Remain in Mexico (MPP)
•Signed Executive Order 13988, prioritizing trafficking prosecutions
•Arrested 12,000+ smugglers & traffickers via ICE/CBP/DOJ ops
•Built 450+ miles of border wall
•Ended “Catch and Release”
•Enacted Remain in Mexico (MPP)
•Signed Executive Order 13988, prioritizing trafficking prosecutions
•Arrested 12,000+ smugglers & traffickers via ICE/CBP/DOJ ops
4. Under Biden:
•Border wall halted
•MPP dismantled
•8+ million illegal crossings
•Unvetted NGO transport networks expanded
•Trafficking investigations fell by 25%
•Fentanyl & smuggling exploded — with cartel profits higher than ever
•Border wall halted
•MPP dismantled
•8+ million illegal crossings
•Unvetted NGO transport networks expanded
•Trafficking investigations fell by 25%
•Fentanyl & smuggling exploded — with cartel profits higher than ever
5. Trump’s Second Term Strategy: What’s Being Done Now
•Launched DOGE, streamlining federal data & border ops
Trump plans to track cartel-controlled smuggling corridors using:
•Drones, satellite imagery, AI-enhanced border surveillance
•Biometric tracking of known smugglers and trafficking suspects
•With the DOGE initiative streamlining agency coordination, Trump aims to share actionable intelligence in real time between DHS, CBP, ICE, and DOJ.
•Established CIA’s Americas Counternarcotics Mission Center to track smuggling like a terrorist network
•Launched DOGE, streamlining federal data & border ops
Trump plans to track cartel-controlled smuggling corridors using:
•Drones, satellite imagery, AI-enhanced border surveillance
•Biometric tracking of known smugglers and trafficking suspects
•With the DOGE initiative streamlining agency coordination, Trump aims to share actionable intelligence in real time between DHS, CBP, ICE, and DOJ.
•Established CIA’s Americas Counternarcotics Mission Center to track smuggling like a terrorist network
6. With that designation, Trump can:
•Use military and CIA force against cartel bosses
•Sanction and seize cartel-linked assets globally
•Charge NGOs, wire service platforms, or banks that aid smuggling with material support for terrorism
•Launch drone and cyber operations on traffickers
•Use military and CIA force against cartel bosses
•Sanction and seize cartel-linked assets globally
•Charge NGOs, wire service platforms, or banks that aid smuggling with material support for terrorism
•Launch drone and cyber operations on traffickers
7. Trump’s plan:
•Deploy military & drones to cartel routes
•Quadruple deportations
•Restore full MPP and ban NGO transport of border crossers
•Launch joint interdiction task forces with Mexico, El Salvador, & Panama to hit caravans before they move north
•Deploy military & drones to cartel routes
•Quadruple deportations
•Restore full MPP and ban NGO transport of border crossers
•Launch joint interdiction task forces with Mexico, El Salvador, & Panama to hit caravans before they move north
8. Human trafficking isn’t just a crime — it’s modern-day slavery.
•72% of women and girls trafficked at the border are sexually assaulted (Doctors Without Borders, 2022)
•85,000+ unaccounted migrant children under Biden
•Cartels have “ownership” over entire border sectors — that ends now
•72% of women and girls trafficked at the border are sexually assaulted (Doctors Without Borders, 2022)
•85,000+ unaccounted migrant children under Biden
•Cartels have “ownership” over entire border sectors — that ends now
9. Current Actions (2025):
•CIA-led ops already tracking cartel smuggling via drone & SIGINT
•Trump signed order to restore ICE raids on known smuggling hubs
•New DOJ task forces prosecuting NGOs and middlemen
•Congressional allies drafting bill for mass indictments under RICO + FTO statutes
•CIA-led ops already tracking cartel smuggling via drone & SIGINT
•Trump signed order to restore ICE raids on known smuggling hubs
•New DOJ task forces prosecuting NGOs and middlemen
•Congressional allies drafting bill for mass indictments under RICO + FTO statutes
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on April 14, 2025, CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis outlined the agency’s intensified strategy against Mexican drug cartels.
He announced the establishment of the Americas Counternarcotics Mission Center, aiming to merge personnel focused on counternarcotics and Western Hemisphere operations for enhanced coordination.
Ellis emphasized creating a “finely tuned machine” to dismantle cartel networks, leveraging the CIA’s counterterrorism experience from the Middle East and South Asia.
He highlighted the importance of upstream efforts, such as identifying drug production labs and tracing precursor chemicals, and noted improved border security measures since January 20.
He announced the establishment of the Americas Counternarcotics Mission Center, aiming to merge personnel focused on counternarcotics and Western Hemisphere operations for enhanced coordination.
Ellis emphasized creating a “finely tuned machine” to dismantle cartel networks, leveraging the CIA’s counterterrorism experience from the Middle East and South Asia.
He highlighted the importance of upstream efforts, such as identifying drug production labs and tracing precursor chemicals, and noted improved border security measures since January 20.
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