AUSTIN – On Friday, Representative Chip Roy reintroduced the Drug Cartel Terrorist Designation Act, which would codify President Trump’s Foreign Terror Organization declaration of the Mexican cartels.
“It is all too easy for one president to the next to completely dismantle our national security efforts,” said TPPF CEO Greg Sindelar. “We applaud all members of Congress seeking to immediately codify the excellent executive orders President Trump signed to strengthen border security and protect American communities. With this legislation enacted, it will not be so easy for any incoming president to undo such important work.”
Chief Transformation Officer Joshua Treviño added, “The enhanced and expanded powers afforded by a Foreign-Terror Organization designation for Mexican cartels are essential to their defeat. The designation itself is well earned by the cartels, which have sown death and terror for too long in American communities, American streets, and American homes. President Trump kept his promise, now the rest of the United States federal government needs to do the same. Make no mistake: with this FTO designation, Mexico’s cartels — and their friends and allies in Mexico’s government — are on notice.”
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