After years of destructive open border policies during the Biden-Harris administration,

Congressman Dan Crenshaw has been tasked with combating the growing influence of Mexican cartels and the illegal flow of fentanyl at our southern border.

We sat down with the Navy SEAL veteran to hear his plan to build a strong partnership with Mexico in order

to dismantle the cartels and secure America's border. I'm Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley,

with Georgia Howe. It's November 30th, and this is a Saturday edition of Morning Wire.

Joining us now to discuss his plan to secure our southern border and dismantle the Mexican drug cartels as Congressman Dan Crenshaw, Congressman, thank you so much for joining us.

So last year you were tapped by the Speaker to lead the task force to combat Mexican drug cartels.

First, how were you chosen?

Well, because this was on the heels of passing HR2, you know, our flagship border security bill.

And I had the complaint to the speaker that there was nothing in that bill that dealt with cartels and that we had no real plan to deal with cartels from a legislative perspective.

And that was the point I brought up to him and a demand

I had that we either do add it to HR2 or figure something else out. And from that conversation came

the idea of the task force where a task force can be many things in Congress, but it's usually a

bipartisan group of members that use their time to research a very specific policy objective,

in this case, cartels. And that's all started. And what recommendations are you making for

U.S. policy to combat cartel influence both domestically and abroad going forward?

Yeah, some of these things have already been done. Others still need to be accomplished, and a lot of it really depends on Mexico itself.

That's one of the bigger lessons we've learned from all this research.

To give me examples of things we've accomplished, well, reauthorizing FISA was a huge one.

During that reauthorization, we not only made a lot of changes and reforms to FISA that would prevent another crossfire hurricane, which I know a lot of people are concerned about. But we also added some capabilities. You might be surprised to hear

that we actually tie our own hands behind her back from intelligence collection using FISA

against entities like cartel affiliates and Chinese companies that make the precursors for

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