Hegseth Spearheads Joint Ops With Mexico To Crush ‘Godless Cartels’

The Defense Department and Drug Enforcement Agency held an intelligence-sharing effort with Mexican security forces this week in Texas as the Trump administration ramps up its efforts to crack down on the drug cartels that traffic illicit drugs and illegal aliens — many of them women and minors sold into the sex trade — across the southern border.

U.S. defense sources — who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the collaboration between the Pentagon, the DEA, and elements of the Mexican government’s security apparatus — told Just the News that there was a quiet U.S.-Mexico collaboration effort this week just across the Rio Grande in western Texas.

A senior defense official who attended the event told Just the News that the interagency is working together like never before to carry out President Trump’s agenda of stopping the flow of deadly drugs that are killing thousands and thousands of Americans each year. The senior defense official also said that the Pentagon is committed to being a leading force in locking down the Southern Border and putting an end to what he described as “the godless cartels.”

The joint interagency training event occurred at the DEA El Paso Intelligence Center — dubbed “EPIC” — and was described as a “collaboration” between U.S. federal agencies and Mexican security forces, according to a defense source who also said the training event was designed to facilitate real-time information sharing, planning, and collaboration on joint efforts to counter cartel operations.

The defense source also said that Mexican security forces were in attendance on Wednesday at EPIC for several briefings related to the joint interagency collaboration to combat the cartels which are operating inside Mexico and smuggling drugs into the United States.