Sara Carter, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (Drug Czar), was on Newsmax‘s “Greg Kelly Reports” to talk about the progress of destroying the cartels and reducing fentanyl deaths in the United States.
During the four years of Biden’s open border, cartels were funneling in massive amounts of fentanyl, killing a massive number of Americans.
Since President Trump resumed office, his administration has aggressively targeted drug cartels by land, air, and sea. Securing the border has also helped in reducing the flow of illegal drugs into the United States.
“This has been a dramatic turnaround. Fair to say?” Kelly asked.
“Absolutely fair to say and this is all do to President Donald J. Trump. This is his policy. This is our national drug control strategy,” Carter said.
“We are hitting the cartels at every single choke point, Greg. From the border, land, sea, and air, we are making sure that the cartels cannot find their way into this country, and we are doing that by taking the fight to them,” Carter explained.
“We are not allowing them to operate with impunity anymore in our nation, or in the Western Hemisphere,” Carter continued.
“The numbers are showing it. President Trump’s strategy is working. Why? Because under the Biden administration, the border was wide open,” Carter said.
“The highest point of overdose deaths that we saw in the United States, was under President Biden with over 112,000 deaths. That’s in 2022 to 2023,” Carter continued.
“We are looking right now at under 68,000 overall, overall deaths, which is still way too many, but that’s 40 percent down from the highest point, and by the way, those are the lowest numbers since March 2017,” Carter said.
“Every single person that is alive today because we put the pressure on the cartels, because we’ve stopped the drugs from coming into this country,” Carter said.
“We are making sure that they do not have the money in their coffers, so that they can pay for their army of men. This is about destroying the cartels, dismantling them with our Homeland Security task forces, working together as a whole of government to target these, these nefarious organizations and take them out of the picture,” Carter said.
“This is what President Trump wants. He wants to save lives. He wants to destroy the cartels, and this is exactly what we are doing,” Carter continued.
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