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If you watched Bob Brooks on Rob Schmitt Tonight, you felt what millions of Americans already know in their bones: we are back to a crisis at our southern border that is about much more than politics. This is about dead sons and daughters from fentanyl, broken towns because of Mexican cartel violence, and petty tyrants in bureaucracies who shrugged as rivals moved in.
Make no mistake, the trafficking is not just street-level misery — it is an international supply chain that traces back to Chinese chemical suppliers and corrupt networks that launder the profits. Security analysts and watchdogs have been warning that precursors shipped from Asia, moved through porous transpacific routes and lax ports, feed the Mexican cartels that turn them into deadly fentanyl bound for American kids. The pattern is a damning portrait of what happens when we stop leading and let others fill the vacuum.
Washington’s complacency has real consequences, and that is why Treasury and other agencies have begun to take the kind of hard action the country should have demanded years ago. Recent sanctions and enforcement steps targeting Mexican financial facilitators and companies tied to shipments of precursor chemicals show the problem is systemic and international — not a mere domestic policing issue. This is the kind of pressure we must keep applying until the money trails and the supply lines are cut off for good.
Meanwhile, the geopolitical picture is ugly: while bureaucrats in Washington dithered, foreign powers and hostile regimes pushed into the Western Hemisphere and criminal actors consolidated power. Reports of increased military posturing and operations in the Caribbean and around Venezuela make it plain that we are in a contest for influence — a contest that was lost in parts of the hemisphere because we weren’t paying attention. The only language bad actors respect is strength and consequences, and that is exactly the posture conservatives have been demanding.
Organizations like FinCEN and private analysts have laid out the playbook: cartel operations, Chinese-sourced inputs, and financial networks that exploit weak enforcement to poison our communities. Those findings justify the tougher designations and legal tools now being used, and they vindicate the argument that stopping the fentanyl pipeline requires striking at the international financial enablers and foreign suppliers, not just blaming local law enforcement. If you want fewer bodies and safer streets, follow the money and the chemistry.
Patriots, this is our wake-up call. Vote for leaders who will secure the border, hold foreign adversaries and complicit institutions accountable, and restore the order in our hemisphere that protects American families. The time for nice words is over; the time for decisive action to protect our children and our sovereignty is now.
