{"id":1871966,"date":"2023-03-08T15:40:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T20:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-and-kennedy-push-for-designation-of-mexican-drug-cartels-as-foreign-terrorist-organizations\/"},"modified":"2023-03-08T15:54:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T20:54:42","slug":"graham-and-kennedy-push-for-designation-of-mexican-drug-cartels-as-foreign-terrorist-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-and-kennedy-push-for-designation-of-mexican-drug-cartels-as-foreign-terrorist-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham and Kennedy Push for Designation of Mexican Drug Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgraham-and-kennedy-push-for-designation-of-mexican-drug-cartels-as-foreign-terrorist-organizations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1871966&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div>\n<p>Lindsey Graham (Republican-States.C.) &#038; John Kennedy (Republican-La.). Sens. Lindsey G. Graham (Republican-States.C.) &#038; John Kennedy (Republican-La.) spoke out about the necessity of declaring Mexican drug cartels Foreign Terrorist Organizations and authorizing the U.S. military&#8217;s retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>In their March 8th debate, the senators presented arguments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/sen-graham-speaks-about-fighting-against-fentanyl-and-mexican-drug-cartels_5108299.html\">press briefing<\/a> They are responsible for thousands of deaths each year in America and the United States should take urgent action to prevent them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Drug cartels in Mexico have been terrorizing Americans for decades. We&#8217;re going to destroy their business model and their lifestyle because our national security \u2026 depends on us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Proposed bill would also include: Senile Cartel; Jalisco New Generation Cartel; Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas in FTO designation.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy and Graham claim that this designation would enable the U.S. military wipe out these cartels and make it more expensive for other countries to do any business with them.<\/p>\n<p>A statement was also made by the two men that they believed the US would have the ability to sue foreign corporations for supporting the cartels.<\/p>\n<p>Graham pointed out that the law enforcement can bring Chinese chemical firms with ties to cartels to court in America to face trial.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. John McCain and Robert Menendez argue that the cartels were driven by fentanyl. Because of the drug&#8217;s killing power, they should consider the opioid as a weapon against mass destruction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here&#8217;s what I hope will happen: we&#8217;re going to terrorize the terrorists,&#8221; Graham said. &#8220;If you get on the cell phone, it may be the last call you make.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Terrorists are committed to their cause and live in caves. Narco-terrorists have mansions in open areas, and they own expensive cars. We are able to find out where you live and how much you earn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker outlined his plan in categorizing the cartels as terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My aim is to keep you awake at night. That the cost of doing business\u2014when it comes to poisoning America\u2014goes up. That&#8217;s when you try to get someone to join your cartel, they&#8217;ll say \u2018no, thank you, the last guy got killed or went to jail.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Until you do that, nothing&#8217;s going to change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Graham claimed that Mexico was a safe haven for cartels. Senators counter that Mexico has been a magnet for them. &#8220;narco-state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They appealed to President Joe Biden as well Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for action and support in eradicating the cartels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not going to sit on the sidelines and watch our neighbor become a narco-state that kills more Americans every year than we lost in Vietnam,&#8221; Graham said.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy and Graham hope the bill will be supported by both parties and the United States and Mexico can cooperate to end organized crime in Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> &#8230;..<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> &#8220;Continue reading More from&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/graham-and-kennedy-push-for-designation-of-mexican-drug-cartels-as-foreign-terrorist-organizations_5108645.html?utm_source=partner&#038;utm_campaign=conservnewsd\">Graham and Kennedy Push for Designation of Mexican Drug Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsey Graham (Republican-States.C.) &#038; John Kennedy (Republican-La.). Sens. Lindsey G. Graham (Republican-States.C.) &#038; John Kennedy (Republican-La.) spoke out about the necessity of declaring Mexican drug cartels Foreign Terrorist Organizations and authorizing the U.S. military&#8217;s retaliation. In their March 8th debate, the senators presented arguments press briefing They are responsible for thousands of deaths each year &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1843,"featured_media":1895566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[13819,21009,5642,5542,3803,5111,3917,9125,3688,4163],"class_list":["post-1871966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-cartels","tag-designation","tag-drug","tag-foreign","tag-graham","tag-kennedy","tag-mexican","tag-organizations","tag-push","tag-terrorist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1895566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}