{"id":1874418,"date":"2023-03-10T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-chip-roy-introduces-bill-to-designate-mexican-cartels-foreign-terrorist-organizations\/"},"modified":"2023-03-10T20:30:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T01:30:34","slug":"rep-chip-roy-introduces-bill-to-designate-mexican-cartels-foreign-terrorist-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-chip-roy-introduces-bill-to-designate-mexican-cartels-foreign-terrorist-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Chip Roy introduces bill to designate Mexican cartels &#8216;foreign terrorist organizations&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Frep-chip-roy-introduces-bill-to-designate-mexican-cartels-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=1874418&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 class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_78476531\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 footage creates legal headache for DOJ prosecutions\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"The release of new tapes from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show could create a major legal headache for the Department of Justice's handling of cases against hundreds of defendants, according to legal experts. 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(R-Texas), would have required the State Department to identify certain Mexican cartels if passed. &#8220;foreign terrorist organizations.&#8221; This move is in response. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/drugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drug trafficking<\/a> Over the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/fairness-justice\/the-biden-administration-owns-the-human-tragedy-at-the-southern-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The southern border.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The bill, also known as the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/630673128\/The-Drug-Cartel-Terrorist-Designation-Act#from_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drug Cartel Terrorist Designation Act<\/a>The 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. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/mexican-kidnappings-cartel-offers-apology-letter-suspects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kidnapping four U.S. citizens<\/a> There is a fentanyl epidemic in the United States. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/mexicos-president-makes-clear-he-isnt-an-ally-in-the-fight-against-fentanyl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MEXICO&#8217;S PRINCE MAKES IT VERY CLEAR THAT HE IS NOT AN PARTNER IN THE FIGHT AGAINST FLENTANYL<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;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,&#8221; Roy <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/rep-roy-introduces-bill-designate-mexican-cartels-foreign-terrorist-organizations?intcmp=tw_fnc\">Telled<\/a> Fox News. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;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&#8217;m introducing it again,&#8221; He stated. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; Roy stated. &#8220;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.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Roy&#8217;s legislation is supported by 21 people, including Reps. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/rep-dan-bishop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Bishop <\/a>(R-NC), <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/rep-lisa-mcclain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lisa McClai<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Read more from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/roy-introduces-legislation-designate-mexican-cartels-fto\">Chip Roy introduces a bill to label Mexican cartels as &#8216;foreign terror organizations&#8217;<\/a>&#8221;<\/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>Rep. Chip Roy Friday&#8217;s bill, introduced by Rep. (R-Texas), would have required the State Department to identify certain Mexican cartels if passed. &#8220;foreign terrorist organizations.&#8221; 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896950,"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":[538],"tags":[13819,10106,13036,5542,5413,3917,9125,7129,10107,4163],"class_list":["post-1874418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-cartels","tag-chip","tag-designate","tag-foreign","tag-introduces","tag-mexican","tag-organizations","tag-rep","tag-roy","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\/1874418","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1874418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}