Chuck Marino
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39 appearances
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1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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Well, I think we see President Trump keeping his word in terms of sealing up the border and going after those national security threats and criminal threats that were allowed to come in the past four years in the Biden administration. I wish I had a set number that I could give you about who's been allowed in. But as you know, that number fluctuates on any given day, depending on who you talk to.
We have a lot of bad actors that have made their way into the United States. This is confirmed. We see it each and every day, whether it's suspected terrorists being rounded up in New York, L.A. and Pennsylvania, or these criminal aliens that are continuing to prey on American citizens here in the country. So, I think we're in the right direction.
I like that the cartels have been designated finally as foreign terrorist organizations. They've never been as powerful as they are right now based on the policies of the Biden administration, both financially and operationally. And there's nothing that comes to the southwest or northern border that's not touched by the cartels.
You know, we were locked in in previous administrations to this thinking that we were dealing with solely a law enforcement problem. And never thought about expanding how we were defining the problem. And I think that limited the resources that we were bringing to the specific problem of the cartels. And it was limited to the FBI. And pretty much that was it.
Just law enforcement at the federal, state and local level. levels. Now, with the foreign terrorist designation, you can bring a whole of government approach similar to what we're seeing now by declaring a national emergency at the Southwest border with the cartels falling into that too.
Well, I take it very serious. I can tell you right now that this is what we see happening down in Mexico. with the cartels taking action, violent action against many government officials down there. And that is because, not because they want to rule the country of Mexico, it's because they want to keep the Mexican government out of their money-making business.
And right now, whether it's the US military on the southwest border or CBP and ICE finally being allowed to do their jobs, we're doing the same thing. And so, I highly expect that we will see an increase in violence. However, it won't last very long.
I think you could see the military playing a significant role either in cooperation with Mexico or doing something unilaterally along the lines of special operations.
Yeah. Well, I think we've seen so far in the last four weeks, just like their first term in office, the Trump administration plays hardball when it comes to diplomacy. And it usually takes place publicly, which puts the country you're conducting diplomacy with in a trick bag because you box them in.
And so now what's going to happen here is I can imagine that the Trump administration, and we've already seen it with the threat of tariffs, They're also being put on notice that should anything happen to any of our personnel along either one of our borders, that there's going to be action taken by the United States.
And so, you're starting to see Mexico, they don't want to see that happen, starting to step it up in terms of their military presence. Now, the problem with that is their military has become as corrupted as their law enforcement institutions, so they're not a very reliable tool in Mexico's arsenal any longer since they started being used by President Calderon for law enforcement action.
So, you know, we may have to do this unilaterally. It depends on the situation that takes place. But I'll tell you, it's only going to take one time. And then the new president of Mexico is going to be put on against us.
You know, I hope they think it's time for collaboration, you know, not unlike what we did during Plan Colombia. Now, granted, the FARC in Colombia actually wanted to run the country, right? They were a political organization. They still are, but they were conducting acts of terrorism to destabilize the government of Colombia. And they asked for the assistance of the United States.
We treated them as an insurgency, and we were able to help Colombia regain control of that country. Now, yeah, we're not dealing with an insurgency with the cartels, but they are acting a lot like terrorist organizations. And so we might as well treat them as such. And I think Mexico would be wise to take us up on our offers of assistance to help them combat this problem.
I think it's gotten way beyond their control or their ability to control.
You know, my one consistent assumption has been having to do with the demographics of the Democratic Party, unfortunately. And the support I give to that conclusion is let's look at the number of things that played out in front of Congress, where you had a district of Columbia, for example, you know, pushing for the right to vote for illegal immigrants.
Let's look at these other cities like New York that were pushing along the same lines. We were seeing it throughout most sanctuary cities where they wanted to give that right. The problem with the Biden administration was I think they started that effort too late, but I believe that was always their sole purpose for allowing what they did.
Yeah, I don't think this would be a mass invasion of Mexico. I think this would be a lot of using special operations to go after a lot of these locations where the cartels are embedded. You know, it's really, as you know. Amazing how these cartels all mirror paramilitary organizations now.
And that goes back to the previous point I made about when they would send out the military to solve a law enforcement problem at the time.
several years ago and only half of the troops would come back, not because they were being killed by the cartels but because they were abandoning ship, they were being offered more money to go work with the cartels and they were taking with them their training, their equipment, their vehicles and so now we've got all these paramilitary organizations.
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