ExclusiveUS Deploys Carrier Strike Group to Caribbean

The Trump administration is deploying a carrier strike group to the Caribbean, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said on Friday. In support of the president's directive to dismantle transnational criminal organizations and counter narco-terrorism in defense of the homeland, the Secretary of War has directed the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group and embarked Carrier Air Wing to the U.S. Southern Command Area of Responsibility. he wrote in a social media post. The goal of the deployment is to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States' homeland and our security in the Western Hemisphere, Parnell added. The announcement comes after the Trump administration has conducted at least 10 lethal kinetic strikes in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific The strikes have killed at least 40 deaths. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will not go to Congress to seek authorization to conduct the strikes. Americans last year and that gives you legal authority. Well, I mean, the question is, bottom line, these are drug boats. If people want to stop seeing drug boats blow up, stop sending drugs to the United States.