The
American family gunned down in northern Mexico should be a wake-up
call for U.S. policymakers that the spiraling cartel violence in Mexico is
not going to remain south of the Rio Grande, and that the time has come to
fight back against the cartels—unilaterally, if need be.
Mexican drug cartels have headquarters throughout the United States and are
one of the country’s greatest criminal, national security and public
health threats, according to a veteran DEA senior agent pushing the federal
government to designate them as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
As
the Trump administration considers designating Mexican drug cartels as
Foreign Terrorist Organizations, Judicial Watch provides comprehensive
documentation that the sophisticated criminal operations meet the U.S.
government’s requirements to make the list.
Following a massive bust of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel in Ohio, state
legislators are utilizing many of Judicial Watch’s arguments to get the
federal government to designate Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist
Organizations.
