Top Republican Unveils Bill To Classify Drug Cartels As Terrorist Organizations

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In his statement, Roy details his bill and what it would do:

The “Drug Cartel Terrorist Designation Act,” would formally designate the Reynosa/Los Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel and the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas as Foreign Terrorist Organizations under federal law. It would also require the State Department to issue a report to congress on additional cartels that meet the criteria for FTO designation and require the department to designate them as such within 30 days of the report.

“To anyone remotely familiar with the brutal tactics and extensive operations that cartels use on both sides of our southern border every single day, there is absolutely no question that they should be described, designated, and treated as terrorists. These are people who hang, behead and burn people alive to threaten and control government officials and Mexico and they are starting to bring those dangerous tactics here to the United States,” said Congressman Roy. “These criminal organizations endanger American citizens, our Mexican neighbors, and the immigrants who seek to come here. They treat human beings like cattle, trafficking them — as well as deadly narcotics — across our border and through our communities every single day for profit. To make matters worse, they’re growing even more powerful, wealthy, and brazen as a result of this administration’s self-inflicted border crisis. We need to get serious, treat cartels like the terrorists they are, and give law enforcement even more tools to bring them down.”

The Reynosa/Los Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel — which has operational control of Reynosa, Mexico and the surrounding areas just across the border from McAllen, Texas — is known for their profit model that relies on smuggling and trafficking migrants. The Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas, based just over the border from Laredo, Texas is also known for exploiting the unsecured border of the United States and beheading, torturing, and killing those that cross them.

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