In a segment on Fox News, Jesse Watters spoke with White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and homeland security Stephen Miller about Democratic opposition to President Donald Trump’s designation of cartel groups as foreign terrorist organizations.
Miller said the reaction from Democrats shows they are refusing to acknowledge the brutality of the cartels operating along the U.S.–Mexico border.
Watters opened the discussion by asking Miller whether he had ever seen a political controversy develop in this way.
“Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and homeland security, Stephen Miller, all right. Miller, have you ever heard of a controversy like this in your life?” Watters asked.
“No, this is the first time I can ever think where a major political party has sided with narco trafficking, murdering terrorist scum,” Miller replied.
He referenced public comments from Democratic lawmakers objecting to the term “narco-terrorist.”
“You know, you play one of those clips from a Democrat who said there’s no such thing as a narco terrorist. They’re just Narco persons.”
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Miller drew comparisons between the tactics of ISIS and the methods used by cartel groups.
“The ISIS and these Narco terrorists in our hemisphere use the same tactics. They use rape as a weapon. They skin people alive, they cut off their heads. They burn them to death,” he said.
“These Narco terrorists, if a politician opposes them, they kidnap their family. If they don’t give them what they want, they murder their family.”
Miller said cartel influence along the southern border is well known to U.S. officials who monitor conditions in the region.
“You can go to the border patrol here in the United States, and you can say, draw me a map of the border. And on the Mexican side, tell me which cartel controls every inch of territory, and the border agents can literally say mile by mile, which cartel controls which section of the border, not the Mexican government. They don’t control it, which cartel,” he said.
Watters asked Miller how the administration interprets the pushback from Democrats, who argue against labeling cartel organizations as foreign terrorist entities.
Miller said the designation is a central part of the president’s strategy.
“When President Trump declared these organizations, foreign terrorist organizations, that wasn’t just a talking point, that wasn’t just a buzz word, it was a promise,” Miller said.
He added that the purpose of the designation was to use national power to prevent cartel groups from harming Americans.
“A promise from this President to use hard American power to kill and to stop these terrorists, these enemies of the United States, from killing our families, from killing our children, from taking over our communities. And that’s what President Trump is doing.”
Miller said the administration views the terrorist designation as a necessary measure to respond to cartel violence, which officials say has expanded across multiple regions of Mexico and continues to affect communities near the border.
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“ISIS and these narco-terrorists in our hemisphere use the same tactics. They use rape as a weapon, they skin people alive, they cut off their heads, they burn them to death.” 🔥
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