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Graham says he will introduce bill to ‘set the stage’ for US to use military force in Mexico
The Hill ^ | 3/7/23 | Brad Dress

Posted on 03/07/2023 10:45:12 AM PST by JonPreston

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Monday said he was prepared to introduce legislation to “set the stage” for U.S. military force in Mexico, saying it was time to “get tough” on the neighboring country after four Americans were kidnapped by armed men this week.

Graham told Fox News host Jesse Watters that he would follow the advice of former President Trump on Mexico policy.

“I would put Mexico on notice,” Graham said. “If you continue to give safe haven to drug dealers, then you are an enemy of the United States.”

Graham added he would “introduce legislation to make certain Mexican drug cartels foreign terrorist organizations under U.S. law and set the stage to use military force if necessary.”

“I would tell the Mexican government if you don’t clean up your act, we’re going to clean it up for you,” the senator said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: graham; lindagraham; lindseygraham; mexico; usmilitary
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1 posted on 03/07/2023 10:45:12 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston

The best use of our military since 1941.


2 posted on 03/07/2023 10:45:58 AM PST by JonPreston
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good thing we didn’t build that wall then...

that would have slowed us down.


3 posted on 03/07/2023 10:47:59 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: JonPreston

“I would tell the Mexican government if you don’t clean up your act, we’re going to clean it up for you,” the senator said.”

Linda’s a real bad ass ain’t he? SMH


4 posted on 03/07/2023 10:48:41 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: JonPreston

I would argue that no legislative action is actually necessary to set the stage.

The DEA knows all about the criminal Cartels. Simultaneous attack by rocket armed drones on two or three cartel headquarters can be accomplished easily, quickly and cheaply.

The Biden administration can not act because it is on the cartel payroll


5 posted on 03/07/2023 10:48:43 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: JonPreston

Why now? Hasn’t he been in government forever?


6 posted on 03/07/2023 10:48:50 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: JonPreston

CLOSE THE BORDER!
NOW!


7 posted on 03/07/2023 10:49:05 AM PST by Signalman
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To: JonPreston

‘Linda’ is proposing this? Wow.


8 posted on 03/07/2023 10:49:29 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: JonPreston

We’ve pushed Russia and China into an alliance. Why not add Mexico to it as well?

Remember when all those neocon trolls on FR laughed at the comparison of NATO mucking around in Ukraine, to a Chinese-Russian military alliance arming Mexico and having bases on our southern border?

Perhaps it will happen sooner than we ever imagined.


9 posted on 03/07/2023 10:50:29 AM PST by PGR88
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To: JonPreston
Unwittingly he is falling right into the trap. The border will become irrelevant.

Don't do it! Maintain sovereignty and don't take the pandering flavored bait.

10 posted on 03/07/2023 10:50:33 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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To: JonPreston

Insanity.


11 posted on 03/07/2023 10:50:39 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: JonPreston

Which is apt since we would be fighting in Mexico until 2041.


12 posted on 03/07/2023 10:51:33 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: JonPreston

So THAT’S the way the wind is blowing this morning Lindsay-girl?

Call for ‘an investigation’. that’ll fix ‘er


13 posted on 03/07/2023 10:51:40 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: upchuck

Hey Linda, good girls go to Heaven. Bad girls go RINO/Deep State!

Another Linda ping, please.

14 posted on 03/07/2023 10:51:56 AM PST by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, RINOs, Islamonazis, Marxists, Commucrats, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder!)
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To: JonPreston

Close the border. Build the wall. It will be much cheaper than another endless guerilla war.


15 posted on 03/07/2023 10:52:43 AM PST by 1956tbyrd
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To: JonPreston

More here:

/focus/f-news/4136333

😎👍


16 posted on 03/07/2023 10:53:09 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: JonPreston

Build the border wall. Make a permanent place in the federal budget for active patrols and watch towers along the border wall. But of course that wouldn’t satisfy the pathological need of people like Graham and Cheney to see American soldiers getting maimed and killed.


17 posted on 03/07/2023 10:53:27 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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Yes, occupy the first 10 to 100 miles and create a safe zone and then deport all Mexicans from the US to that area, which will then be safe for them.

Or, as we don't seem to have a border, let's just annex Mexico, occupy it and clean it up--send the Mexicans to Japan since they are whining about running out of people in their crowded cities. Or conscript them to help Ukraine in trade for citizenship there, should they live through the experience.

18 posted on 03/07/2023 10:57:39 AM PST by Reno89519 (DeSantis or Sanders, Anyone But Trump in 2024. Time for Trump to Stand Aside and Retire.)
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To: JonPreston

It would be much easier to hire some of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s hit men and let the do the job.


19 posted on 03/07/2023 10:58:04 AM PST by chopperk ( )
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To: JonPreston

Of course, US Special force could take out the Mexican Cartels, I would caution about how the Cartels would respond, it’s something that should be considered.

You constantly hear about the amount of Fentanyl coming across the border capable of killing millions of people. What if the Cartel upped the potency of the Fentanyl to 4-5x of it’s current levels, instead of 100,000 dead per year, it might be 400,000 per year, what if the Cartels dumped huge amounts of Fentanyl into the water supply of a major city and killed 1,000,000 people.

Yes, militarily, we can annihilate the current cartels, new ones would certainly take their place, closing the border and making it nearly impossible to get across, it seems to me, to be a better solution than getting involved in another potential war.


20 posted on 03/07/2023 10:58:31 AM PST by srmanuel
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