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Trump administration shifts messaging from securing border to taking on drug cartels

By Steve Walsh
Published September 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM EDT

Early in the Trump administration, much of the rhetoric was about securing the border. Now the focus is on waging war against drug cartels and using the might of the U.S. military to take them on.

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