(The Center Square) – In the midst of the U.S. counter-narcotics measures in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean and a major crime crackdown, President Donald Trump hosted a roundtable Thursday of top law enforcement officials from around the country.

Trump touted his administration’s crackdown on crime, including targeting drug cartels, a central theme of the roundtable.

“Under the Trump Administration, we’re finally treating the cartels as the core national security threat that they really are … past administrations have tried to mitigate this threat — and our objective is to eliminate it,” the president said during his remarks at the White House Thursday afternoon.

The roundtable comes as the administration continues to target boats suspected of transporting narcotics across the

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