Florida Gov. DeSantis says he would be open to using drone strikes against Mexican drug cartels if he were elected president.
CORALVILLE, Iowa — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that he would be open to using drone strikes against Mexican drug cartels if he’s elected president.
“We will absolutely reserve the right if they’re invading our country and killing our people,” DeSantis said when a voter asked whether he would be willing to use drones against the cartels. Asked later by NBC News to clarify, DeSantis said: “I said I would use whatever force we need to defend the country.DeSantis has been leaning hard into immigration as a theme in his presidential campaign, pushing to the right toagainst migrants suspected of trafficking drugs. He reiterated the policy again Thursday as he spoke to a crowd of more than 150 voters in a packed restaurant here.
“We’re authorizing deadly force. They try to break into our country? They will end up stone-cold dead,” he said to a rousing round of applause., DeSantis discussed how he would distinguish between migrants who are smuggling drugs and those who aren’t. “Same way a police officer would know,” he said. “Same way somebody operating in Iraq would know. You know, these people in Iraq at the time, they all looked the same. You didn’t know who had a bomb strapped to them. So those guys have to make judgments.”
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