Carter Discusses Cartel Mega-Tunnels and Seizing Cartel Finances on American Thought Leaders
June 13, 2026 · American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times · 0:49:13
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What happened
ONDCP Director Sara Carter joined American Thought Leaders for an extended interview published June 13, 2026, built around a discovery The Epoch Times describes in its program notes: federal investigators had recently found a sophisticated tunnel fifty-five feet underground between Mexico and California — among the largest ever discovered, with electricity, a rail system, ventilation, reinforced walls, and a complex hydraulic lift system. Carter estimated the tunnel was used to transport narcotics worth hundreds of millions of dollars, as The Epoch Times records her estimate. The program notes put the discovery in a larger frame: more than two hundred tunnels of varying sizes and sophistication discovered over four decades, with many more likely still undetected.
As The Epoch Times describes her remit in the interview, Carter as ONDCP Director is fighting to end the narcotic epidemic, seize cartel finances, and make a drug-free life the norm in America. The notes record the toll she works against: deaths from illicit narcotics reached an all-time high in 2022, with 112,000 Americans dying in a single year, and have declined since the administration took office, as the program states the trend.
Why it matters
At forty-nine minutes this is Carter’s longest single interview in her located record: the tunnel case, the cartel-finances campaign, and the drug-free-norm objective laid out at length by the official who coordinates the whole board — the enforcement agencies this site tracks separately (FBI, CBP, ICE) taking direction from the strategy her office owns.
Scoreboard watch
This is a candidate item for the weekly scoreboard: Carter’s June 13, 2026 account — the mega-tunnel estimate and the cartel-finances campaign, each as stated in the interview — to be checked against the enforcement record.
Sources: American Thought Leaders — The Epoch Times, “How Cartel Mega-Tunnels Move Hundreds of Millions in Narcotics Into America” (published June 13, 2026, embedded above). All figures and characterizations as stated by Director Carter and The Epoch Times program notes.
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