CABINET/HOMELAND SECURITY/JOHN KELLY: "Kelly has warned repeatedly about the potential for Islamic terrorists to take advantage of the porous Southern border. But he has said the bigger danger is illegal drugs. 'You know, since 9/11, there's — half a million people have died from narcoterrorism, as we call it in — down where I live,' he said at a Washington forum in 2014. 'Narcoterrorism. Five hundred thousand Americans have died. Very few have died from, you know, traditional terrorism, if you will, since 9/11.' "
– “Trump’s DHS pick could be a ‘force for moderation’,” Politico.com, Dec 16, 2016, Bryan Bender, 12/16/2016