The cartel violence at the border justifies the Trump administration's stance on deporting illegal migrants.

“it justifies why Trump has taken the stance has taken which is we don't know who these people are that are flooding into our country from this dangerous country and we should get rid of them and so I think it just proves that what Trump's doing is the right thing”

Targeted killings of cartel leaders often trigger internal power struggles that splinter organizations and cause violence to spread to new areas.

“Whenever you take out a couple, what you do is you create a turf war that tends to splinter these organizations and make them even more difficult, right, to to deal with.”

The United States military should conduct a campaign to dismantle and destroy Mexican cartels to protect American lives.

“And rather than another war in the Middle East, a military campaign to dismantle and destroy these cartels would easily be a defining legacy of the second Trump administration. It would save American lives, which is the whole reason we have a military.”

The cartel is more powerful than the police in countries like Mexico, where law enforcement is effectively non-existent.

“The cartel is, you know, the I believe the cartel is actually bigger than our police force. I mean, yeah, it's it's very large and there's different, you know, groups of cartels.”

Taking out cartel leaders is often ineffective because it triggers retaliatory violence and does not address the underlying demand for drugs.

“the cartels are out of control. You got to do something about it. But the minute you start to do something about it, you get even more violence.”