A group of Donald Trump-backing conservatives is pushing a radical new plan to fight Mexican cartels.
The group, the Center for Renewing America, is pushing to declare war on illegal operations. The demand for a declaration of war has gone out to the Mexican government, as well as branches of the U.S. military.
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Center for Renewing America is also seeking Congress’s help with the shock plan, asking for a trigger mechanism to be based that would allow legal ports to be shut down based on the number of illegal immigrants who cross the border, according to Axios.
“The chaos playing out along the US southern border is almost exclusively driven by the cartels and their sophisticated trafficking of drugs, people, and criminals,” the policy paper said.
The president of the Center for Renewing America is Russell Vought, Trump’s former director of the Office of Management and Budget. Other leaders in the group include Ken Cuccinelli, a former Virginia gubernatorial candidate and a member of the Department of Homeland Security under Trump, lawyer Mark Paoletta, and former Pentagon official Kash Patel.
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The war proposal by the group comes after stunts by Republican governors, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, have bused immigrants to Democratic cities, such as New York City, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. The Mexican border and immigration have been a major focus by Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections.
A poll conducted from Aug. 29 through Sept. 1 among 1,236 adults found that overall, immigration was tied with the Jan. 6 committee hearings on what voters are thinking about during the midterm elections, behind inflation, abortion, and healthcare. For Republicans, immigration was the second biggest concern at 22%, but it was far less of a concern for independents and Democrats, at 8% and 1%, respectively, according to the Marist Poll.
