Oh, look—another staggering policy win from the Trump administration that the media conveniently forgot to report. Remember when President Trump declared war on the cartels? Of course you don’t, because the press was too busy obsessing over his latest tweet or some fabricated “scandal.” But while they weren’t paying attention, something miraculous happened: Trump started winning. And not just winning—annihilating.
Mexico citizen reporting
– The Cartel presence has disappeared in border city Tijuana, Mexico
– People aren’t being trafficked anymore
– The Cartel isn’t there to charge businesses to operate
– Residents aren’t having their money stolen
– Cartel members have even been killed
-… pic.twitter.com/sZMQalkRwA— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February 26, 2025
Cartels in Crisis: A Tale the Media Won’t Tell
Let’s rewind to the bad old days under Biden, when the southern border was less a line of sovereignty and more a suggestion, generously sprinkled with fentanyl, human trafficking, and cartel thugs running protection rackets like they owned the place. Fast-forward to today, and the script has flipped. The cartels aren’t just on the back foot—they’re fleeing.
Take Tijuana, for example—once a cartel stronghold where businesses paid “taxes” to criminals, women disappeared into trafficking rings, and locals lived in terror. Now? Ghost town. A Mexican citizen recently reported (via this viral tweet) that cartel presence has vanished. No more shakedowns. No more kidnappings. No more armed goons patrolling like they’re the law. Even better? Some cartel members have turned up dead. Funny how that happens when you stop treating narco-terrorists like misunderstood entrepreneurs and start treating them like… well, terrorists.
But wait—it gets better.
The Art of the Deal (Cartel Edition)
While the Biden administration’s border strategy amounted to “please, sir, may I have some more fentanyl?”, Trump’s team has been playing 4D chess. Case in point:
Mexico’s security chief confirmed Tuesday that 17 family members of cartel leaders crossed into the U.S. last week as part of a deal between a son of the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump administration.
Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch confirmed a report by independent journalist Luis Chaparro that family members of Ovidio Guzman Lopez, who was extradited to the United States in 2023, had entered the U.S.
Guzmán Lopez is one of the brothers left running a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel after notorious capo Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was imprisoned in the U.S. Video showed the family members walking across the border from Tijuana with their suitcases to waiting U.S. agents.
Rumors had circulated last week that the younger Guzmán would plead guilty to avoid trial for several drug trafficking charges in the U.S. after being extradited in 2023.
García Harfuch confirmed the family members’ crossing in a radio interview and said it was clear to Mexican authorities that they were doing so after negotiations between Guzmán López and the U.S. government.
He believed that was the case because the former cartel boss, whose lawyer said in January he had entered negotiations with U.S. authorities, had been pointing fingers at members of other criminal organizations likely as part of a cooperation agreement.
Translation: Trump’s team flipped a cartel boss, extracted his family, and is now using intel to dismantle rival factions.
This is how you fight a war. Not with sternly worded memos or “root causes” seminars, but by making the cartels fear America again.
Meanwhile, Under Biden’s Watch…
Remember when fentanyl deaths exploded under Biden’s open-border free-for-all? When cartels operated with impunity, flooding American streets with poison while the DEA twiddled its thumbs? Yeah, those were the days—for the cartels. Now? Trump’s policies are choking off their supply chains, their revenue, and their operatives.
And yet—where’s the coverage? Where’s the New York Times front-page headline: “Trump Administration Somehow, Against All Odds, Makes Border Less of a Dystopian Nightmare”? Oh right, that doesn’t fit the narrative. Better to pretend it’s not happening.
The Silence Is Deafening (And Predictable)
The media’s blackout on Trump’s successes isn’t just bias—it’s strategic. If they acknowledged that his policies work, they’d have to admit that their preferred alternatives (cough Biden cough) were catastrophic failures. And we can’t have that, can we?
So here we are. Cartels collapsing. Fentanyl deaths plummeting. Border cities breathing freely for the first time in decades. And the press? Muted. But don’t worry—they’ll find some way to spin this as a bad thing soon enough.
Final Thought: The next time someone claims Trump’s policies don’t work, just smile and ask: “Then why are the cartels running scared?”
*(Cue crickets.)
