State Department Briefing, June 10, 2025: Bruce on Los Angeles Unrest and Fentanyl Sanctions

Name: "State Department Briefing, June 10, 2025: Bruce on Los Angeles Unrest and Fentanyl Sanctions"
Uploaded: 2025-06-10
Duration: 47 min 31 s
Description: "State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce leads the June 10, 2025 press briefing, announcing, as she stated it, U.S. sanctions on the Los Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel and Deputy Secretary Landau's travel to Mexico, El Salvador, and Guatemala."

June 10, 2025 · U.S. Department of State · 0:47:31

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What happened

State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce led the department press briefing on June 10, 2025, according to the department. Bruce opened, as she stated it, by describing scenes of lawlessness in Los Angeles, where she said radicals rioted to protect criminal illegal aliens and agitators attacked law enforcement and shut down freeways, and said the administration remains undeterred in enforcing its laws and securing the border, with illegal border crossings, as she stated it, at a historic low.

Bruce announced, as she stated it, that the United States is sanctioning Los Chapitos, a faction of the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel, along with its two fugitive leaders, and designating a regional network of Los Chapitos associates and businesses based in Mazatlán, Mexico, engaged, as she stated it, in drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping, and money laundering. She said the State Department under Secretary Marco Rubio will continue working to keep illicit drugs off American streets and disrupt cartel revenue streams, noting fentanyl is a leading cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 49, as she stated it.

Bruce also announced, as she stated it, that Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau would travel to Mexico, El Salvador, and Guatemala from June 10. The briefing then took questions from reporters.

Why it matters

The event is part of the administration’s foreign policy record — its diplomacy, alliances, and use of American leverage abroad — stated here in the participants’ own attributed terms.

Sources: U.S. Department of State, “Department of State Press Briefing - June 10, 2025”, 2025-06-10 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-06-10). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.