The military put a missile through the roof of a Venezuelan compound and killed one of the most wanted gang bosses on the planet.
That strike on Tren de Aragua's Niño Guerrero wasn't the finish line – it was the opening salvo.
And Tom Homan just told America what comes next, and it's bigger than anyone expected.
Homan Confirms Trump Is Taking the Cartel War Against Tren de Aragua and MS-13 Worldwide
Border Czar Tom Homan appeared on Newsmax and delivered a message Democrats don't want you to hear.
Trump is taking the cartel war global – and there is no safe harbor, no neutral country, no mountain range or jungle deep enough to hide.
"He's going to attack these terrorist organizations," Homan told Carl Higbie Frontline. "There is a plan."
He told Americans not to read the current lull as weakness.
"They're going to hear more," Homan said. "There is no safe haven in the world for terrorists who put this country in harm's way."
Trump isn't waiting for cartels to send fentanyl and send gang members across the border and then respond.
He's going after them first, the same way he went after ISIS – coalition forces, military assets, and the full weight of American power deployed where the enemy lives.
"He's going to take them out where they lie," Homan said, "and it is not over."
The US Military Strike That Killed Nino Guerrero Was Just the Beginning
Just three days before Homan's interview, Trump posted a 10-second video on Truth Social showing a building with a green roof disappearing in a massive fireball.
Inside that building was Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores – alias Niño Guerrero – the 43-year-old founder of the gang Tren de Aragua and the man the State Department had put a $5 million bounty on.
U.S. Southern Command delivered the strike with Venezuelan intelligence support.
Federal prosecutors in New York credited Guerrero with building a Venezuelan prison gang into a transnational terrorist network with reach across North America, South America, and into Spain.
He had been indicted on racketeering, conspiracy, and narco-terrorism charges.
Now he's dead.
That strike didn't happen in a vacuum – it was the latest move in a campaign Trump launched in September 2025 that has since killed more than 200 cartel operatives in precision strikes across the Caribbean and Pacific.
In March 2026, Trump formalized the strategy with the Shield of the Americas summit, assembling a 17-nation coalition – the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition – and signing a proclamation directing every available federal resource toward destroying cartel networks throughout the Western Hemisphere.
In January 2026, Trump told Sean Hannity on Fox News that his administration had knocked out 97% of drug trafficking by water – and announced the land phase was starting.
Biden gave these the run of American streets for four years.
Tren de Aragua members murdered two women in a Chicago alley, executed in broad daylight.
The DOJ has federally indicted more than 260 TdA members since Trump took office, with cases spread across five federal districts.
Homan laid out the stakes.
"Thousands of Americans have suffered at the hands of TdA and MS-13 and the other organizations that Trump has designated terrorist organizations," he said.
Every previous administration – Republican and Democrat – treated the cartels as a law enforcement problem.
Trump reclassified them as what they always were: foreign terrorist organizations with military capabilities, running territory, fielding armed cells, and waging war against American communities with fentanyl, trafficking, and murder.
That reclassification unlocked the entire American military apparatus to pursue them the way al-Qaeda is hunted – globally, with lethal force, no safe haven.
Niño Guerrero thought Venezuela was a safe haven.
He was wrong.
Trump promised the American people he would keep fighting until these organizations are wiped from the earth.
Homan said that promise stands.
"President Trump has made a promise to the American people," Homan said. "He's going to keep that promise.”
Sources:
- Jim Mishler, "Tom Homan to Newsmax: Trump to 'Wipe Out' Cartels in Global Offensive," Newsmax, June 15, 2026.
- "Trump says US military eliminated 'infamous' Tren de Aragua leader in lethal strike," Fox News, June 12, 2026.
- Mike Jenkins, "Trump Declares War On Cartels: 17-Nation Military Coalition Formed To 'Demolish' Networks," Tampa Free Press, March 7, 2026.
- "Trump's War on Narco-Terror: U.S. Military Crushes 57 Drug Vessels in Global Anti-Cartel Operations," Lifezette, May 7, 2026.
- "Justice Department Highlights Nationwide Crackdown on Tren de Aragua," U.S. Department of Justice, December 18, 2025.
- "High-ranking Tren de Aragua gangster murdered two American women, captured across country: feds," Fox News, 2025.
- Tom Homan interview, Fox 26 Houston, May 4, 2025.