Sens. Lindsey Graham, John Kennedy call for use of military force to defeat cartels
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby cautioned on Tuesday that it was “just too soon” to discuss “any policy changes or vectors as a result of” the kidnapping and murders by the drug cartels.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday said the president takes the rise in violence in“The FBI and other agencies have been on top of this from day one,” she said. “And so that’s what he’s going to continue to do.”called on the Biden administration to “up the ante” in bringing the fight to the cartels.
“It’s time now to get serious and use all of the tools in the toolbox,” he said. “Not just in the prosecution lane, not just in the law enforcement lane, but in the military lane as well.” The Pentagon has raised concerns that any proposal to deploy the military south of the border would be met with staunch opposition from“I do worry, based on signals, very strong signals we’ve gotten from the Mexicans in the past — concerns about their sovereignty, concerns about potential reciprocal steps — that they might take to cut off our access if we were to take some of the steps that are in consideration,” Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Hemispheric Affairs...
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