This week I introduced legislation to give our military the authority to combat transnational cartels smuggling deadly narcotics like fentanyl into our country.
Cartels are responsible for about 360,000 homicides this year in Mexico. They are militaristic in nature and represent a violent threat to the homeland. When we have 80,000 Americans a year dying from fentanyl that is trafficked into our country by these cartels, that is an active hostile threat against the American people.
Deadly cartels are at war with us, importing people and fentanyl into the United States every day. My legislation will allow us to finally fight back.