Fourth GOP presidential primary debate: on Drugs

Ron DeSantis: Shoot dead anyone crossing the border with fentanyl

DeSantis: The drug cartels are invading our country and they are killing our citizens by the tens of thousands every year. The elites in DC, they don't care that fentanyl is ravaging your community. They don't care that illegal aliens are overwhelming our community.

Q: And does that mean shooting first?

DeSantis: It means you're going to categorize them as foreign terrorist organizations just like we would anywhere. When I was in Iraq, Al-Qaeda wasn't wearing a uniform. You'd see anyone walking down the street, they all had man dresses on. You didn't know if someone had a bomb, an IED attached or not. And so, you had to make a judgment.

Vivek Ramaswamy: Annihilate fentanyl labs AND deal with demand side

Vivek Ramaswamy: To the contrary, I don't think it's going to have to come to that if we deal with the actual demand side problem that we also have in this country. The easy part is talking about how we're going to use our military to secure the border. But the harder part is dealing with the mental health epidemic raging across this country like wildfire. And there's a reason why after the opioid crisis you see fentanyl. The real false promise here is thinking that we're going to have dealt with that underlying mental health epidemic in this country by just dealing with the demand side of it.