Trump is discussing military strikes against Mexican drug cartels, Pete Hegseth suggests

The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh and Donald Trump, are open to use military force such as air attacks and special forces against drug cartels in Mexico.

Trump has disagreed with the criminal rings and promised during his campaign “to fight the war against the posters.”

Just on Monday, some alleged members of the poster cheered the fire in the border patrol of the United States that were monitoring a hot zone of human drugs and smuggling on the border of Texas-Mexico. The agents returned fire to Mexico, although it was not injured.

Because of his role in the production of mortal drugs for the United States, such as fentanyl, the president has said that he would bring the fight to posters to stop drugs that flow to the United States.

Talking to his former Fox News colleagues on Friday morning, Hegseth revealed that Trump tells him to make available the necessary resources to pursue the posters.

Host Brian Kilmeade asked Hegseth: “If we discover that they continue to shoot the border control and continue to put fentanyl in our country, as Secretary of Defense, do you now allow you to go for Mexico or where are they?”

“Brian, I don’t want to get ahead of the president and I won’t,” the secretary began. “That ultimately will be your decision.”

“But make me clear,” he said. “All options will be on the table if we are dealing with what is designated to be foreign terrorist organizations that are specifically addressed to Americans on our border.”

The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, told his former Fox News colleagues that Trump maintains ‘all options’ on the table to deal with Mexican posters. This could mean a variety of different military tactics could be used against criminal groups

Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which operates 23 of the 32 states of Mexico and its capital, Mexico City, has expanded its drug trade operations to 11 states in the United States, Washington, DC and Puerto Rico, according to the control administration of drugs.

Jalisco New Generation Cartel Pose for a threatening recorded message sent to a local television station

It could be understood that Hegesh’s wide response means that any variety of American military power, including the strikes of the land, sea or air, could be ‘on the table’ to go after the posters.

Hegseth also pointed out that the United States Army is also changing its position to better defend the country at home, even for threats emanating from Mexico.

“The army is orienting, changing towards an understanding of the defense of the homeland on our sovereign territorial border,” Hegseth told Kilmeade. “That is something we will do and we will do stubbornly.”

‘If other options needed to prevent the posters to continue to pour people, gangs and drugs and violence in our country, we will carry it out. Then the president will make that call.

Since 2019, the number of Americans who have died annually to Fentanil Federal data.

Synthetic opioid, which typically occurs in Mexico using China ingredients, is responsible for approximately 80 overdose deaths throughout the country.

The substance is deadly that fentanyl poisoning was the main cause of death of Americans between 18 and 45 years in 2022.

“I will unfold all the necessary military assets, including the US Navy, to impose the full naval embargo on the posters,” Trump promised in 2023. “We will guarantee that the waters of the western hemisphere are not accustomed to illicit drugs of traffic to our country. ‘

The booklet image published by the Ministry of Defense and the Navy on January 31, 2025 shows two suspects presented with illegal drugs confiscated in an unleashed place in Mexico. The Government of Mexico, under the growing pressure of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to stop drug trafficking, announced on January 31 that he had seized 18 kilos of fentanyl hidden in a bus

The members of the New Generation of Jalisco (CJNG) pose for a photo in an unleashed place, in the state of Michoacán, Mexico, July 1, 2021

A truck full of fentanyl pills discovered by Mexican authorities in December 2024

“In addition, I will order the Department of Defense to make the appropriate use of special forces, cyber war and other open and covert actions to inflict maximum damage to leadership, infrastructure and poster operations.”

The Republican also classified posters as foreign terrorist organizations, a federal designation that could lead to real consequences for criminal groups.

The press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, mentioned Friday that a 25 percent tariff in Mexico and Canada will be raised on February 1.

A 10 percent rate against China will also be imposed on the same day.

Leavitt said that financial movements against countries were due, in part, to their loud repressions in illegal and immigrant drugs that are transmitted to the United States.

The American border patrol parked on the Mexican border was fired by an alleged drug sign in an effort to smuggle illegal migrants in Texas on Monday

The members of the New Generation of Jalisco (CJNG) pose for a photo in an unleashed place, in the state of Michoacán, Mexico, October 15, 2022

‘Tomorrow, the president will implement a 25 percent tariff on Mexico, a 25 percent tariff on Canada, a 10 percent rate on China for illegal fentanyl they have obtained and allowed to distribute to our country that has killed Dozens of millions of Americans, ‘Leavitt said.

However, the real number of Americans who have perished due to fentanyl vary in the hundreds of thousands, not in tens.

The posters have been increasingly hostile to the United States in recent years.

And Monday’s shooting between criminals and border patrol agents have become a more frequent occurrence along the border.

The shooting exploded in Fronton, Texas, near Guadalupe Guerra, exactly one week after President Donald Trump returned to office.

The images show a small group of cartel members with rifles that cross from Mexico to an island on the Río Grande River.

No US officials were injured in the fight he saw on the fire of the border patrol to Mexico.