Now, President Trump has called the cartels the ISIS of the Western hemisphere, and he's right. The cartels traffic, they torture, they behead human beings and they enrich themselves and profit off of American deaths. And that's why President Trump took action and designated [the cartels] as foreign terrorist organizations on day one. Today, the men and women of the Department of Homeland Security are on the front lines of the fight against the cartels and the drugs poisoning our country. (28:59–29:06)
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Asserts that President Trump designated cartels as foreign terrorist organizations on his first day.
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