One of the things that Trump has been trying to do in his second term is ramp up the crackdown on harmful and illegal drugs flowing into the United States, largely because of Mexican cartels.
The opioid epidemic kills more than 100,000 Americans every year, and has been especially damaging in rural American towns hollowed out by the movement of industry out of the country.
This is what Trump has always accurately described as forgotten America.
Now we are learning that a multi-agency task force which is based in Florida has seized enough cocaine in this fiscal year to kill every single American. That is just stunning.
FOX News reports:
Drug task force seizes record-breaking 1 million pounds of cocaine, denying cartels and narco-terrorists $11B
A Florida-based multi-agency task force has seized a record one million pounds of cocaine during fiscal year 2025 — a haul officials say represents 378 million lethal doses, enough to kill every American.
The seizure was announced by Joint Inter-Agency Task Force – South (JIATF-S), led by U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM). The unit, which includes the U.S. Coast Guard, works with partner nations to disrupt the flow of illicit drugs through the “transit zone” between South America, Central America and the Caribbean and to weaken transnational criminal organizations.
According to the task force, the amount of drugs seized over the past 12 months is enough to fill 42 dump trucks. The 2025 fiscal year ends Tuesday.
JIATF-S confirmed to Fox News Digital that the effort has denied cartels and narco-terrorists $11.34 billion in revenue and removed 377.9 million lethal doses from the streets.
JIATF-S operates across 42 million square miles, from the Eastern Pacific to the Western Atlantic, stretching from international waters north of the Caribbean Antilles to the southern tip of South America at Cape Horn.
It’s difficult to grasp the size of all of this.
In the last 12 months, #SOUTHCOM and @jiatfs, in close coordination with @USCG, @USNavy, our interagency partners, and like-minded nations, have seized/disrupted one million pounds of cocaine, enough to fill 42 dump trucks. This massive effort has denied cartels and… pic.twitter.com/TCSGlHfP2V
— U.S. Southern Command (@Southcom) September 30, 2025
Depriving the cartels of this kind of revenue will weaken them, which is good news for the United States.
This is the sort of story that gets lost in the noise of daily media coverage. While Democrats are on TV accusing Trump of imaginary crimes, Trump is preventing real crimes and saving lives in the process.