An alleged Sinaloa cartel leader admitted President Trump’s aggressive border policies have made the illegal work of the powerful Mexican drug gang more difficult in an interview with CNN.
An anonymous member of El Chapo’s former gang explained that Trump’s immigration and drug policies have put a damper on their black-market tradecraft in a bizarre interview with the news station’s senior national correspondent, David Culver, in the back of an SUV.
“From killing to coordinating smuggling operations, he says he’s done it all,” Culver said, referring to Trump.
“Do you think what President Trump has been doing has been making your job tougher?” He asked the confessed killer and cartel boss.
“Oh yeah. Yeah,” the gang member — dressed in a black mask, sunglasses, black gloves, and a hat to conceal his identity — admitted flatly.
“So it’s becoming more difficult, you think?” Culver prodded.
“Yep,” the supposed gangbanger said.
The CNN report further revealed that cartels are now charging much more to get migrants across the southern US border because of the Trump crackdown on illegal migration.
Border-hoppers are now expected to pay $10,000 each instead of about $6,500 per person prior to the Trump-era policies, according to Fox News.
The hardened criminal said that though he has killed people, he considers himself a good person.
“I did what I had to do,” he said.
In the interview, the Sinaloan cartel leader expressed that he came forward to speak with CNN, hoping to deter others from joining drug gangs.
“It’s not a life. It’s not good,” the man said in broken English.
“Once you get in, you can’t get out,” he warned in Spanish.
The anonymous man is not the first Sinaloan cartel member to credit the Trump administration for its robust approach to halting the human and drug trafficking operations at the southern border.
Margarito “Jay” Flores Jr., who made millions with his twin brother as members of El Chapo’s cartel, praised the president in an interview last month.
“I think the aggressive approach is going to send a strong message to every drug trafficker across Latin America and places like Venezuela that’s used as a transport hub from Mexican cartels and Colombian organizations,” Flores told Fox News.
That “aggressive approach” is continuing with the United States prepping for attacks against drug gangs deep inside Venezuela, according to an NBC News report.
