Secure the border and target cartels

Van Duyne supports closing asylum loopholes, building border walls where Border Patrol requests them, and hiring more border agents to respond to surges of unauthorized immigration and intercept drug trafficking. She also supports designating cartels as foreign terrorist organizations to give the government additional tools to combat them.

Context: Her proposed wall construction is limited to locations where Border Patrol requests it.

In their own words

getting cartels designated as foreign terrorist operations

The source

Beth Van Duyne: /fwst-candidate-guide-issue-questions-1-21-20/

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Retrieved: 11/12/2026