Sheriff Barnes said “military force” refers to the use of resources, like cyber, drones and intelligence.
Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes is counting on recently introduced federal legislation to help prevent narcotics from flowing into OC.
In a March 6 letter he sent to the authors of legislation that would authorize the use of military force against Mexican drug cartels, Barnes said the cartels are “flooding American communities with the deadly drug fentanyl” and taking lives on “both sides of our southern border.” “It is time for the federal government to take meaningful action against these hostile drug trafficking organizations,” Barnes said in the letter to Republican Reps. Mike Waltz of Florida and Dan Crenshaw of Texas.would authorize the president to “use all necessary and appropriate force against those responsible for trafficking fentanyl or a fentanyl-related substance into the United States or carrying out other related activities that cause regional destabilization in the Western Hemisphere.
The use of “military force” refers to the use of resources, like cyber, drones and intelligence, not sending troops into another country, according to the sponsors. And military force would be used only against organizations and people outside of the U.S. “It’s the ability to use resources that will better protect us and disrupt the drug trafficking enterprise of the cartels, not necessarily using tanks, bombs and missiles,” Barnes said.
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