“Wipe Them Out” - Trump’s War With Mexican Cartel
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the Mexican Cartel and how powerful they are and why it s time for America to wage war on the cartels. The cartels are coming to a city near you and they are changing the landscape of the United States.
Transcript
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How much influence do you think the Mexican cartels have in the city you currently live in?
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I'm going to show you the map for you to learn more about it.
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But before I do so, earlier this year, the president came out with Tom Holman.
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They qualified the Mexican cartels as an FTO, which is a foreign terrorist organization.
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It is going to wipe you off the face of the earth.
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Tom Holman says in multiple interviews, President Trump will wipe them off the face of the earth.
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We're not just going to attack in Mexico, the Jalisco cartel.
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We're going to attack them in the 43 countries they have operations in.
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And it's time for America to wage war on the cartels, which we are doing.
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This is from the Drug Enforcement Administration showing where they're at.
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These are areas where the major Mexican transnational and criminal organizations have influence in.
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You got Houston, Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis, Oklahoma City.
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But when you look at this, you're like, where are they kind of leaving North Dakota and South Dakota alone?
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But you need to know about the history of what's happened here.
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This is a very important chart I'm going to share with you before we get into this episode.
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When it comes down to five drugs, cocaine, marijuana, heroin, meth, fentanyl.
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In the 80s, when you look at the estimated drug smuggling from Mexico to the U.S. by decade, by tons.
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Literally nothing coming to the States just 20 years ago.
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Then 2006 to 2010, cocaine goes all the way up to 200 tons.
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And then all of a sudden, you see a little bit of fentanyl, but less than a ton.
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I have so much data I want to share with you about the Mexican cartel.
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Okay, so first, when you think about this business, let's look at how much money these
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I mean, how much money is fentanyl making these guys in 2025?
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Estimated annual revenue just from us as a customer.
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And marijuana is officially less than 5 billion.
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When we think about these types of things, who do we think about?
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In the 80s, Mexican cartel by size, by different era.
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In the 80s, it was roughly 5,000 to 10,000 members total.
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At the time, under Miguel Angel, Felix Gallardo, cartels worked under one umbrella to traffic
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So they were the ones that were coming to buy from Colombian cartels.
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Guadalajara cartel splits into Sinaloa, Tijuana, and Juarez cartels.
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Start of the turf wars, rise of the plaza systems, and alliances with Colombian suppliers.
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So now, instead of just distributing, now I'm dealing with suppliers.
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They go from 10 to 20 to 30 to 50,000 members across six to eight major cartels.
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This is when they started attracting special forces called the Los Zetas.
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Militarization of cartels, expansion of controls over municipalities and police.
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Now they have power because now they have protection.
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They go from 30 to 50 to 100,000 plus, including sicarios, informants, and low-level operatives.
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Now they're becoming a little bit of a military, almost like running like a country.
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Calderon's drug war begins, Mexico military deployed, extreme fragmentation begins, cartels
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diversify into oil theft, extortion, and kidnapping.
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Cartels splinter further, Knights Templar, CJNG rises, Sinaloa begins to decentralize under
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El Chapo's arrest, and then CJNG rapidly grows.
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And so since 2018 till today, they're relatively the same size, maybe increased a little bit
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more by 10,000, 20,000, but they're about the same size.
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So from 2018 till today, you know how much power these guys have now?
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They have influence over 35% of the entire country of Mexico today.
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Why is it so important where the president, Tom Holman, they're going to wipe off the Mexico?
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Because when you look at charts from CDC on how many people die from overdose drugs in
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2022, let's just say, because that's the chart that we can find.
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In 2022, 107,941 people died from overdose that year.
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Of the 107, do you know how many it was just fentanyl?
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Nearly 70% of anyone in America that died from overdose died from one drug, fentanyl.
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And then when you look at the chart on where it was before, non-existent in 2000, non-existent
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in 2005, non-existent in 2010, pretty much non-existent to 2013.
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And then look at the spike on what happened to it.
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You know how many people around me tell stories about fentanyl, that they lost somebody?
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A lot of people, a lot of people, and this is what they're trying to stop from getting
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So, recruitment and exploitation, use of American citizens, the number of Americans arrested
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in Mexico for organized crime-related offenses, the number of Americans, Americans, if
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you're watching this, you're an American, Americans arrested in Mexico for organized
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crime-related offenses increased by 457% from 2018 to 2024, presidency of Andres Manuel
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185 U.S. citizens have been arrested by Mexican army on organized crime charges since President
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Claudia Scheinbaum took office in September of 2024, averaging three arrests per day.
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During AMLO, which is Andres Manuel presidency, 2,500 Americans were arrested for crimes such
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as drug trafficking in Mexico, compared to a prior tour, only 449.
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Out of nearly 4,000 foreigners arrested for organized crime offenses in the last six years,
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In Mexico, two-thirds of the 4,000 arrests related to drugs, two-thirds, 66% are Americans
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Now, you may ask, what are Americans being recruited for?
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They're being recruited for being sicarios, gunmen?
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They're being recruited and used for purchasing and transporting cartel-related goods.
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Some of the cartels that are recruiting these Americans, they're doing it because these guys
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are drug users that become indebted and are forced into trafficking.
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Out of desperation, they're recruiting these guys.
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And remember, the president's only been a president roughly for four months, a little
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He threatened a 25% tariff on Mexican and Canadian goods due to illegal immigration drug-related
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concerns, but paused it for Mexico after Mexico deployed 10,000 National Guard troops
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Another thing these cartels are tied to is kidnapping and murder.
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Cartel-related violence has directly affected U.S. citizens between 2022 and 2023.
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Over 700 Americans were reported missing or disappeared in Mexico, and 307 were murdered, notably
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Four Americans were kidnapped in Matamoros, Mexico.
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Americans are also heavily involved in human smuggling.
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Between July 2021 and August 2024, over 1,000 U.S. citizens were arrested in Texas for people
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smuggling, making up more than 70% of those arrested for the crime.
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A couple other things that these guys are into is financial exploitation.
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Beyond drug trafficking, cartels have diversified into financial crimes, including timeshare
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These schemes have defrauded American victims of over $300 million, according to the FBI.
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This next one may be the craziest one out of everything I've read here, and I've already
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According to the CDC, they estimate that the opioid overdoses cost the U.S. economy nearly
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$1 trillion annually in lost productivity, healthcare expenses, and law enforcement efforts.
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Another business model they have on how they make money is human smuggling.
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People that want to come to America, cartels help them.
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They charge an average migrant $5,000 to $10,000 to smuggle them over to America.
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Remember the 80s, we would watch mob movies and somebody would come in and say, hey, moving
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forward, you're going to pay me 20% taxes on everything that you're making.
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I'm, you know, I'm with the Colombo family, I'm the Gambino family.
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They're doing the same exact thing, extortion and thrust to U.S. business owners.
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Cartels have extended extortion rackets into the U.S., targeting truck companies.
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Agriculture businesses and nightclubs in California, Central Valley, carteling gangs have infiltrated
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the avocado and cannabis industries, leading to violent turf wars and property destruction.
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In America today, so let me tell you one of the benefits of qualifying the Mexican cartel
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as an FTO, foreign terrorist organization, is now the FBI, the DEA, the DHS, everybody
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And on top of that, if you as an American are working with a terrorist organization, meaning
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If you're working with them, whatever your punishment would be on a regular thing of dealing
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with an American, even if you're selling cocaine, working for an American.
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But if you're dealing with them selling fentanyl for the cartels, as an American, your punishment
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is much more severe because it's as if you're working with Al Qaeda.
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So the question comes now, what do you do about this?
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The president, Tom Homan, we're going to wipe them off the face of the earth.
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If we let these guys get bigger and bigger and bigger, that 40 to 60 billion, the 35 billion,
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the 20 to 30 billion, all of a sudden they're going to get more creative, have better military.
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They're going to realize they need better military equipment right now.
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All they got is AK-47s, M4s, RPGs, a couple armored vehicles.
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If they have influence over 35% of Mexico, we need to get a way to knock them out now, not
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There's an example that needs to be made for them to realize this is not the place to mess
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CNN is interviewing one of the Senegal members.
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He says, oh, what do you think about the fact that the president and they're doing what
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What would you say to him if he was watching this?
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I understand his priorities to protect this country.
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So because they keep consuming our product, this is why we're making, you know, a couple hundred
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billion dollars or whatever kind of money they're making.
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I hope the president, Tom Homan and others go even stronger, but they need an example.
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The example needs to be bigger and bigger and bigger and a public one similar to what
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happened in the 80s when a mob was eventually put to rest in New York because 245 people
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There needs to be a massive example being made for them to realize you cannot be doing this.
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And not only you cannot be doing this, you cannot be doing this where?
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But the one thing I wanted to do this video with where Brandon brought up and the team
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brought up is we wanted to make you aware of what is going on in a city near you.
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This isn't just Mexico and how they're recruiting Americans to go work for them and help them
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