President Donald Trump is proving how serious he is about targeting the Mexican drug cartels that he has designated as terrorist organizations, as the U.S. military is reportedly using high-tech spy planes to monitor the southern border.
At least 18 missions have been flown over the southwestern U.S. and around the Baja California Peninsula in the past two weeks, CNN reported. Eleven of the flights used Navy P-8s, and one used the famed U-2 spy plane initially used to spy on the former Soviet Union.
“I think the cartels would be foolish to take on the military, but we know they’ve taken on the Mexican military before. But now we have the United States military,” border czar Tom Homan stated last week. “Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely, because the cartels are making record amounts of money.”
In late December, Mexico’s leftist president seemingly attempted to take…
