Texas Rep. Chip Roy is ready to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations.
According to a Fox News report, Rep. Roy’s Drug Cartel Terrorist Designation Act would require the State Department to designate the Gulf Cartel, the Cartel Del Noreste, the Cartel de Sinaloa, and the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion as foreign terrorist organizations.
From Fox News:
Cartels control large sections of the southern border on the Mexican side and facilitate the smuggling of drugs, illicit cargo and illegal migrants across the border – with most migrants having to pay cartel smugglers in order to be able to cross illegally into the United States.
The violent nature of the cartels was highlighted last week when four Americans were kidnapped during a shootout — two of whom were killed.
“They are bold enough to kidnap and kill foreign nationals in broad daylight; there is no limit to the inhumane methods they will use to achieve their ultimate end — profiting off of human suffering,” he said. “This most recent atrocity adds to the already massive human toll including 72,000 dead Americans from fentanyl poisoning, more than 1,000 dead migrants along our border, and countless human and sex trafficking victims.”
“Enough words; it’s time for Congress to act,” he said.
“It’s long past time to designate these cartels as the terrorists they are and give U.S. authorities the tools needed to take them down,” Roy said. “That’s why I started pushing the Trump administration for FTO designations during my first few months in Congress, why I introduced this legislation last Congress, and why I’m introducing it again.”
More over at Fox News:
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— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) March 10, 2023
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