Congressmen File Bill to Declare Mexican Cartels Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Jose Nino
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Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) have filed a bill to designate specific Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs).
In a written statement, Chip Roy said “Cartels are the problem and it is time we started acting like it.”
Roy continued:
“My colleague Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) and I are asking Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to conduct a review in order to designate these specific Mexican drug cartels Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs).”
The congressmen’s bill singles out the following cartels as FTOs:
- The Reynosa/Los Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel
- The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG)
- The Cartel Del Noreste (CDN) faction of Los Zetas
According to Roy, these specific factions were chosen “because of their particularly violent actions and intentional strategies to affect the political system. These cartels push for an anarchic form of government which allows them to skirt laws and push their terrorist model without any legal ramifications.”
Roy’s colleague Mark Green added,
Americans know that it is time to get tough and secure our southern border through physical barriers and better enforcement. The president is using the money Congress sent him to begin building a wall, and now we must follow up with this new designation that will empower our law enforcement agents to fight the cartels.
This is just another demonstration why border security is a must.
Indeed, cartel violence is largely the result of the U.S.’s failed Drug War policies that let drug cartels profit off of black market drug sales and Mexico’s failed governing institutions. Some policies like ending the War on Drugs are ideal, but not politically realistic in today’s environment.
Nevertheless, governments have an obligation to protect their citizens from foreign threats such as drug cartels. One of the more politically realistic solutions is the construction of a border wall.
Drug cartels are only one layer of the many problems that open borders bring.
Over-extended welfare states, immigrant ghettoes, and the consolidation of leftist rule are all on the menu.
For so much talk about border security in the past two years, very little has been done, even when Republicans were in control of both chambers of Congress.
What is happening at our border merits a proper response from the U.S. government. We cannot afford to ignore this subject any longer.
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