The Washington Wick has obtained exclusive interviews with members of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels, and their message is clear: Donald Trump doesn’t scare them.
These hardened criminals, who traffic everything from narcotics to people across the U.S. border, laughed off the idea that the newly re-elected President could intimidate them, dismissing him as a relic of reality TV with a fancy title.
“Trump? He’s nothing to us,” said a mid-level Sinaloa Cartel operative who identified himself only as Carlos. “He’s just some old guy who yells on TV and signs papers. We’ve been dodging his type for years.”
President Trump's first term saw border security tighten, with wall construction and increased patrols, but the flow of drugs and migrants didn’t exactly dry up. U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported seizing over 800,000 pounds of drugs between 2017 and 2021, yet the trade kept booming.
But when the conversation turned to Tom Homan, Trump’s pick for Border Czar, the tone shifted fast. Homan, a former ICE director known for his no-nonsense approach to immigration enforcement, has a reputation that precedes him.
“That guy? He’s different,” Carlos admitted. “Homan doesn’t mess around. He’s coming for us, and he knows how to make it hurt.”
Homan’s track record backs up the fear. During his tenure at ICE, deportations spiked, and he pushed for aggressive raids that disrupted cartel operations on American soil. Now, with Trump handing him the reins to overhaul border policy, Homan’s vowed to crack down harder than ever with mass deportations, military-style operations, and zero tolerance for the cartels’ human smuggling sidelines.
Another cartel member, a Juárez enforcer calling himself El Toro, told The Washington Wick “Trump can wave his pen all he wants. Homan’s the one who’ll shove it down our throats and make us choke on it.”
The contrast couldn’t be starker. Trump spent his campaign promising to “fix the border” with big speeches and bigger gestures, but the cartels see him as a figurehead, a guy who delegates the dirty work. Homan, meanwhile, is the boots-on-the-ground enforcer they dread — a man who’s spent decades in the trenches and isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty.
Data from the Department of Homeland Security shows illegal border crossings hit record highs in recent years under former President Joe Biden, with over 2 million encounters in 2024 alone. Trump’s team claims Homan’s appointment will reverse that trend overnight, and the cartels seem to believe it.
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