Trump: We declared the drug cartels "foreign assassination organizations" and used the military against them.

Trump: We declared the drug cartels "foreign assassination organizations" and used the military against them.

Donald Trump also said that his government has declared the drug cartels "foreign assassination organizations" and used the militant United States armed forces to counter them. He called the cartels the "ISIS of the Western Hemisphere" and said their members should be killed, deported or arrested as "enemy combatants."

Trump also claimed that the US carried out dozens of ground attacks on boats carrying drugs and stopped 97% of the transportation of drugs by sea. According to him, three months ago the leader of the Venezuelan group "Tran de Aragua" was killed.

He went on to describe Mexico as the "center of cartel violence" and said it was unacceptable for the United States to border territory controlled by cartels along its 2,000-mile border. The live text in this section is interrupted when Mexico is asked to take back control.