Florida Governor and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis stopped by Fox News to discuss the border crisis and his thoughts on new “rules of engagement” with Mexican drug cartels bringing deadly fentanyl into the country.
“After seeing what’s going on down there, has that changed your opinion of immigration?” host Jesse Watters asked.
“It confirmed what I had known,” DeSantis responded. “And it’s worse than you think when you actually get down there. And the impunity with which the cartels operate. I was literally in a place in Arizona, there is a piece of wall that just kind of stops. So the guy just goes on the other side of where the wall ends, looks out, and he just motions for people to go. There’s no border patrol to be found, they’re in town processing people. And so they’re bringing product into our country.”
“They’re killing a lot of people,” he continued. “So one of the things that I saw — the places where there were barriers, the cartels will actually cut through the steel beams, and they’ll smuggle in backpacks with a lot of drugs. So what I said is, wait a minute, we defend the territory of our own country. We’ll have military and everyone down there. If you are in the cartels cutting through our fence to bring drugs in, that’s going to be the last thing you do because we’re going to leave you stone-cold dead. We are having adequate rules of engagement.”
Watch the clip below:
“If you are in the cartels cutting through our fence to bring drugs in … that’s going to be the last thing you do. We’re going to leave you STONE COLD DEAD.”
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— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) June 29, 2023
Former President and 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is also proposing tougher penalities for drug runners and cartels —including the death penalty.
Trump: "I will destroy the cartels" pic.twitter.com/V139PEz6zY
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 27, 2023
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