WATCH: Trump Vows Cartel Members Will Be ‘Hunted Down’ and ‘Expelled from Our Soil Like the Savage Monsters That They Are’

President Donald Trump has declared that cartels and illegal alien gangs will be “hunted down” and “expelled from our soil like the savage monsters that they are.”

Trump made the promise while speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

“Their members and leaders in the United States will be hunted down – I’m talking about MS-13, they’re hunting them down,” Trump promised. “We removed tens of thousands MS-13, Tren de Aragua – rooted out, arrested, and expelled from our soil like the savage monsters that they are.”

.@POTUS: MS-13 and Tren de Aragua members in the United States “will be hunted down… rooted out, arrested and expelled from our soil like the savage monsters that they are.” pic.twitter.com/SXXvJyJV1x

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 22, 2025

Earlier this week, the State Department designated eight foreign gangs as terrorist organizations — including MS-13 and Tren de Aragua.

“The intent of designating these cartels and transnational organizations as terrorists is to protect our nation, the American people, and our hemisphere,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement about the designations. “That means stopping the campaigns of violence and terror by these vicious groups both in the United States and internationally. These designations provide law enforcement additional tools to stop these groups.”

The statement continued, “Terrorist designations play a critical role in our fight against terrorism and are an effective way to curtail support for terrorist activities. Today’s actions taken by the State Department demonstrate the Trump Administration’s commitment to protecting our national security interests and dismantling these dangerous organizations.”

On his first day back in the White House, President Trump issued an executive order declaring the organizations “Foreign Terrorist Organizations.”

The order states, “The Cartels have engaged in a campaign of violence and terror throughout the Western Hemisphere that has not only destabilized countries with significant importance for our national interests but also flooded the United States with deadly drugs, violent criminals, and vicious gangs.”

“It is the policy of the United States to ensure the total elimination of these organizations’ presence in the United States and their ability to threaten the territory, safety, and security of the United States through their extraterritorial command-and-control structures, thereby protecting the American people and the territorial integrity of the United States,” the order continues.

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