Rep. Chip Roy introduces bill to designate Mexican cartels ‘foreign terrorist organizations’

Rep. Chip Roy Friday’s bill, introduced by Rep. (R-Texas), would have required the State Department to identify certain Mexican cartels if passed. “foreign terrorist organizations.” This move is in response. Drug trafficking Over the The southern border.

The bill, also known as the Drug Cartel Terrorist Designation ActThe legislation seeks to name the Sinaloa cartel and Cartel del Noreste cartels, as well as the Gulf cartel, Cartel del Noreste cartel and the Jalisco New Generation cartel, as foreign terrorist organisations. Following the, the legislation is now in force. Kidnapping four U.S. citizens There is a fentanyl epidemic in the United States.

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“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 Telled Fox News.

“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,” He stated.

The smuggling into the U.S. of illegal drugs like fentanyl is a result of cartels, which contributes to the opioid crisis. They also smuggle migrants across the southern border. Two U.S. citizens also were killed in an attack by cartels on their southern border.

“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,” Roy stated. “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.”

Roy’s legislation is supported by 21 people, including Reps. Dan Bishop (R-NC), Lisa McClai