Vice President JD Vance on Saturday bluntly defended the Trump administration’s recent targeted U.S. Military strike of Tren de Aragua cartel drug smugglers.

“Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military,” Vance posted to X.

Far-Left social media activist Brian Krassenstein replied to Vance, “Killing the citizens of another nation who are civilians without any due process is called a war crime.”

“I don’t give a s*** what you call it,” the VP bluntly responded. The response, only posted hours ago, already has over 1.3 million views.

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Vance later doubled-down, mockingly posting, “Democrats: let’s send your kids to die in Russia. Republicans: actually let’s protect our people from the scum of the earth.”

Democrats: let’s send your kids to die in Russia.

Republicans: actually let’s protect our people from the scum of the earth.

— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 6, 2025

This is certainly not the first time Vance has been blunt in his response to Left-wing defenses of apparent criminals. Vance notably went viral back in January when CBS anchor Margaret Brennan tried to argue about when exactly an Afghan national who was plotting a terror attack in the U.S. was radicalized. “I don’t really care, Margaret,” Vance memorably interrupted her argument.

“I don’t really care, Margaret.“

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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— Ginny Robinson (@ImGinnyRobinson) January 26, 2025

Over the past decade, hundreds of thousands of Americans have suffered synthetic opioid-related deaths. During the open-border Biden era, tens of thousands of pounds of fentanyl were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). It’s unclear how much fentanyl made it into the U.S. illegally. Trump’s administration has not only closed the border and started deporting illegals, but they are being proactive with cartel members.

This past week, as referenced by Vance, Trump posted a video of the military strike against Tren de Aragua members in the Caribbean Sea. As noted by The Daily Wire, the strike took place in international waters and killed nearly a dozen terrorist cartel members carrying illicit drugs, according to Trump.

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— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 2, 2025

Additionally, Trump’s strikes against drug cartels are only getting started, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Rubio said on Wednesday that the Trump administration would no longer rely on stopping drug runners when they arrive on U.S. soil, The Daily Wire reported. Instead, the United States will take out cartel members before they reach the country to spread their “poison.”

“Interdiction doesn’t work because these drug cartels — what they do is they know they’re going to lose 2% of their cargo. They bake it into their economics,” Rubio said. “What will stop them is when you blow them up. You get rid of them.”

Related: U.S. Drone Strikes Cartel Drug Boat, Trump Posts Video For World To See: ‘BEWARE!’

An opinion piece in Canada’s Western Standard sheds light on a deeply troubling reality: one in four late-term abortions in Alberta, Canada, resulted in a baby being born alive — and many were left to die without medical care.

According to the Western Standard, the federal agency responsible for compiling and reporting health data across Canada, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), reported a total of 133 late-term abortions in Alberta in the 2023-2024 year. Based on data analyzed by pro-life researchers and originally raised in the Alberta Legislative Assembly, this should spark serious concern — and immediate action — not only in Canada, but also in the United States.

According to the Canadian data, out of 133 late-term abortion procedures, 28 babies survived the abortion. These weren’t “non-viable tissue,” as the abortion industry so often claims. They were living, breathing infants, whose humanity became undeniable in their cries and movements.

Instead of receiving medical attention, however, they were abandoned and left to die. These aren’t abstract numbers — these are living, breathing children.

I know this reality all too well because I am one of those statistics. I survived an abortion in 1977.

When my birth mom was 31 weeks pregnant, her mother, a prominent nurse at a local hospital, forced her to have an abortion to end my life. For days they injected a saline infusion into the amniotic fluid, a solution designed to poison and scald me until I was delivered dead. On the fifth day, I was born, leading my birth mom to think the abortion was successful. I was then rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) — and, unbeknownst to her, I lived and was placed up for adoption.

At The Abortion Survivors Network, we know firsthand the weight of such statistics — because we are living proof that survival is possible. It isn’t easy being an abortion survivor. What many don’t know is that while we fought to survive physically as babies, that mental fight continues well into adulthood. We shouldn’t have to continue to fight something we defeated as babies.

There are roughly over 10,000 late-term abortions performed annually in the U.S. and that is a conservative estimate. If even 25% resulted in a live birth, as the Alberta data suggests, that would amount to 2,500 infants born alive every year.

Yet in the U.S., each state has different reporting requirements and laws. For example, in Minnesota there is no ban for abortion regardless of what trimester a woman is in, she could be at 35 weeks and decide she no longer wants the child, and she can legally seek an abortion. Aside from states differing on abortion law, there is no nationwide federal requirement to report when a child is born alive during an attempted abortion. And because there are no federal “born alive” reporting standards, there is a lot we don’t know. The pro-abortion crowd may say it “doesn’t happen” but how would they know if there is no tracking, reporting and they refuse to listen to survivors and mothers?

This lack of adequate data stems from several factors, including variations in state reporting requirements or perhaps some states choosing not to report abortion data at all.

Opponents of Born Alive protections often argue that surviving infants who are born-alive are often too premature or sick to survive. But that misses the point entirely. Our data show that infants refute the opponent’s arguments about viability — these babies who were diagnosed with fetal anomalies survived being aborted in the second trimester.

Our medical system cares for premature babies, critically ill newborns, and children with disabilities every day — why should it be any different for a baby born alive after an abortion?

The measure of a humane society is not whether every life can be saved, but whether every life is treated with dignity and given a chance.

What we need is strong federal Born Alive legislation that does the following:

It’s time to ask: How many babies survive abortions in the U.S., but do not survive the system’s silence?

These children deserve our voice, our laws, and our care.

Every child who survives an abortion deserves to be more than a statistic.

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Melissa Ohden, is the founder and CEO of The Abortion Survivors Network and is a pro-life speaker, leader, and advocate who often appears on television and radio shows. She has spoken on Fox News, The 700 Club, Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), One America News (OAN), Hannity, Focus on the Family, and more. Having earned her Master’s in Social Work, Melissa is also the author of You Carried Me: A Daughter’s Memoir.

If you or someone you know is an abortion survivor, please reach out to Melissa Ohden at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.