Trump praises SOUTHCOM counter-drug ops that seize 264,000 pounds and 1,000 traffickers
Todd South
President Donald Trump visited U.S. Southern Command today to applaud the work of military service members working in the command’s counter-narcotics operation that saw a doubling of resources and historic seizures over the past three months.
“I wanted to come and thank you personally for your valiant fight to defend our borders and take our vile traffickers, these vile traffickers out of business, knock them out of business the smugglers the criminal cartels we want to knock them out,†Trump told a dispersed, masked audience of mostly military and law enforcement.
In both his remarks and a White House statement, he noted that over the past 12 weeks, efforts to increase surveillance in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific ocean specifically have grabbed 120 metric tons, or 264,000 pounds of illegal drugs and nabbed 1,000 drug traffickers.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2020/07/10/trump-praises-southcom-counter-drug-ops-that-seize-264000-pounds-and-1000-traffickers/
