The idea that we would have, in this hemisphere areas that are under the physical control of foreign terrorist organizations, paramilitary organizations, is completely unacceptable. The cartels that operate in this hemisphere are the ISIS and the Al Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere. and should be treated just as brutally and just as ruthlessly as we treat those organizations. We have learned after decades of effort and is that there is not a criminal justice solution to the cartel problem. (02:21–02:29)
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Compares cartels in the Western Hemisphere to ISIS and Al Qaeda.
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