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U.S. Secretary Marco Rubio Speaks in Mexico City | Talks Border Security & Bilateral Relation | AC15

Published September 3, 2025 | Video Starts at 23:41

We don't get there in time to stop it. We pass that on to the Mexican authorities who can act on it. Likewise, they can identify a drug ship that's headed our way. Maybe it got past their systems, but now is in the United States and we can act on it. Anytime you take people in the jail, they become informants. (23:41–23:46)

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Asserts that Mexican authorities can identify drug shipments heading to the U.S.

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“We are increasingly concerned that these cartels are now in possessions not just of land mines and grenade.”
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“We're now seeing the deployment of drone technology by narco terrorist groups operating out of Venezuelan territory.”
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“The United States has long, for many, many years, established intelligence that allow us to interdict and stop drug boats.”
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“They were designated as what they are. They are narco terrorist organizations.”
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“A drug boat was headed towards eventually the United States.”
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“The President of the United States is going to wage war on narco terrorist organizations.”
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“This one was operating in international waters, headed towards the United States to flood our country with poison.”
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“Part of this working group, part of our security plan, part of our implementation is to stop the flow of armaments.”
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“Those arms are flowing to Haiti, they're flowing to Jamaica, they're flowing to Trinidad, they're flowing into the Caribbean.”
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“The President of the United States has determined that narco terrorist organizations pose a threat to the national security of the United…”
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“They are traffickers of deadly drugs.”
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“They use the money that they generate to destabilize governments in the region.”
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“The President, under his authority as Commander in Chief, has a right under exigent circumstances to eliminate imminent threats to the…”
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“That's what he did yesterday in international waters.”
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“We're not going to sit back anymore and watch these people sail up and down the Caribbean like a cruise ship.”
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“We've made tremendous progress [in security cooperation with Mexico].”
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“The economic team from Mexico was in Washington meeting with Ambassador Greer and also meeting with Commerce Secretary Lutnick.”
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“We've always cooperated. There's always been law enforcement cooperation. We're talking about amplifying that.”
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“We already have started to do it.”
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“Let's say there's a gun running group that's coming out of the United States, headed into Mexico, we identify it.”
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“We pass that on to the Mexican authorities who can act on it.”
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“Organizations sharing that information is also valuable.”
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“There's opportunities to cooperate on equipment.”
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“Maybe there's equipment we have in the United States.”
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“Maybe it's equipment that we have used in the past in other areas of the world.”
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“Maybe they have something that we would want.”
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“It also has to do with joint training.”
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“Maybe there's things they do operationally that they have learned from their time taking on the cartels.”
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“Things that we have learned from a training standpoint that they would benefit from.”
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“That's the kind of cooperation we're going to amplify on and operate together on.”
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