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<p><span style="font-weight:400">President Donald Trump promised on Saturday that cartel members in the United States would be “hunted down” and removed from the country.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Trump spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference and referred to cartel members as “savage monsters” that his government will pursue and expel from the United States.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">“Their members and leaders in the United States will be hunted down – I’m talking about MS-13, they’re hunting them down. We removed tens of thousands MS-13, Tren de Aragua – rooted out, arrested, and expelled from our soil like the savage monsters that they are,” Trump said.</span></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: MS-13 and Tren de Aragua members in the United States &#8220;will be hunted down… rooted out, arrested and expelled from our soil like the savage monsters that they are.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/SXXvJyJV1x">pic.twitter.com/SXXvJyJV1x</a></p>
<p>— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1893396287816421545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2025</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400">Criminal gangs from south of the U.S. border have gained increased influence in the United States in recent years. Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua’s </span><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-report-warns-bloodthirsty-venezuelan-gangs-footprint-remain-us-for-decades"><span style="font-weight:400">rise</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> in the United States coincided with an unprecedented illegal immigration crisis that surged into the U.S. during the Biden administration.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">On Thursday, the Department of State designated eight international criminal gangs, including MS-13 and Tren de Aragua, as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">“The intent of designating these cartels and transnational organizations as terrorists is to protect our nation, the American people, and our hemisphere. That means stopping the campaigns of violence and terror by these vicious groups both in the United States and internationally. These designations provide law enforcement additional tools to stop these groups,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a </span><a href="https://www.state.gov/terrorist-designations-of-international-cartels/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">statement</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400">The designation fulfilled a longtime goal of Trump’s, who began to pursue terrorist designations against cartels during his first administration.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">In addition to MS-13 and Tren de Aragua, the other cartels listed under the State Department designation are the Sinaloa Cartel, Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Cartel of the Northeast, La Nueva Familia Michoacana, Gulf Cartel, and Cárteles Unidos.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">The designations sprang from a January order by President Trump to list such organizations as terror groups.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">“The Cartels’ activities threaten the safety of the American people, the security of the United States, and the stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere,” the </span><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/designating-cartels-and-other-organizations-as-foreign-terrorist-organizations-and-specially-designated-global-terrorists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">order</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> says. “Their activities, proximity to, and incursions into the physical territory of the United States pose an unacceptable national security risk to the United States.”</span></p>
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Cartel Members Will Be ‘Hunted Down’ Like ‘The Savage Monsters That They Are’
