Sinaloa Cartel leader admits Trump is stifling cartel operations

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00:00Do you think what President Trump has been doing has been making your job tougher?

00:05Oh yeah.

00:06Yes?

00:06Yes.

00:07But it's becoming more difficult, you think?

00:09Yeah.

00:10In a bizarre interview on CNN, an anonymous member of the Sinaloa cartel

00:14explained that Trump's immigration and drug policies have put a damper on their black market tradecraft.

00:20The cartel member who said he is not a U.S. citizen revealed that cartel members are using Americans

00:25to help transport illicit drugs into the country.

00:28You all are using social media to get to young people, young teens, and recruiting them to

00:34be part of it.

00:35Some of them, many of them, are American citizens too.

00:40That's life.

00:42It's like that, you know?

00:44So even though they may get caught and spend many years in prison, that's their fault, as

00:49you see.

00:51Yeah.

00:51The Trump administration has dramatically stepped up its battle against the cartels.

00:55In early September, President Trump revealed that the U.S. military killed 11 people in

01:00a drug-carrying boat off the coast of Venezuela, days after deploying warships to the coast of

01:05the South American country.

01:06A few weeks later, the president ordered two more strikes against drug smugglers on boats,

01:12killing six.