{"id":430763,"date":"2021-04-16T15:36:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T19:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=430763"},"modified":"2021-04-16T15:36:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T19:36:34","slug":"rep-chip-roy-introduces-legislation-classifying-drug-cartels-as-terrorist-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-chip-roy-introduces-legislation-classifying-drug-cartels-as-terrorist-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Chip Roy Introduces Legislation Classifying Drug Cartels As 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\">22<\/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-legislation-classifying-drug-cartels-as-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=430763&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2454.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) introduced legislation Thursday that would label drug cartels as Foreign Terror Organizations (FTO) under federal law.<\/p>\n<p>Titled the \u201cDrug Cartel Terrorist Designation Act,\u201d Roy\u2019s bill would classify&nbsp;the Reynosa\/Los Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel and the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas&nbsp;as terrorist organizations, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/15\/chip-roy-introduce-legislation-making-cartels-foreign-terrorist-organizations-congress-mexico-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Daily Caller<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve spent my time talking to people who actually know what\u2019s happening at the border and I\u2019ve been meeting with former DPS agents, people engage[d] with and rooting out cartels and the violence, and all they are telling me is that cartels are becoming increasingly violent,\u201d said Roy. \u201cAll of the data shows it, all of the actions show it. We have people in America being shuttled around by cartel-paid American citizens to put them in human trafficking, sex trafficking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy highlighted a \u201csituation where there was a woman in San Antonio who was stopped, she can\u2019t read or write, she was being terrorized, being held for ransom by the cartel and they threatened her by showing \u2026 [a] picture of her husband, who they had murdered. This is what cartels are doing. They\u2019re doing it in our communities. It is reaching our suburban communities. It\u2019s time for Texas to stand up. It\u2019s time for America to stand up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m introducing a bill to designate them as the terrorist organizations that they are,\u201d Roy continued, adding that the cartels are&nbsp;\u201cundermining our national security. They\u2019re undermining Mexico\u2019s national security. And they are a violent organization that is basically the equivalent of having al-Qaida and ISIS literally operating on our border, and we should stop them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy\u2019s bill comes&nbsp;amid the surge of illegal border crossings following the inauguration of President Joe Biden. Roy, who represents a border district, recently alleged that the Biden administration is turning the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) into a \u201cwelcome mat\u201d for illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rep-chip-roy-says-biden-admin-basically-turning-dhs-into-a-welcome-mat-for-illegal-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"34\">\n<p><em>Speaking with Fox News host Harris Faulkner from a full migrant facility in Carizzo Springs, Texas, Roy laid blame for the worsening border crisis on President Joe Biden. \u201cThere\u2019s one thing that\u2019s changed in the last couple months, and it\u2019s the incoming Biden administration,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThey\u2019re at capacity as of tonight,\u201d Roy said of the facility, which he explained was replete with migrant children who have COVID-19. \u201cThis is all the result of a wide-open borders policy by the Biden administration, failure to finish the fence, but most importantly, they\u2019re basically turning DHS into a welcome mat. And they\u2019re just encouraging more dangerous journeys for kids.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Roy went on to explain that \u201cthe dirty little secret\u201d of what\u2019s going on at the border is that with the facilities bursting at the seams, an increasing number of these young migrants will be released into the United States, which he said endangers U.S. citizens and migrants alike.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAmericans are in danger, immigrants are in danger, and it\u2019s the Biden administration\u2019s fault, all for crass political purposes,\u201d Roy said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/poll-majority-of-americans-disapprove-of-how-biden-is-handling-the-southern-border-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poll: Majority Of Americans Disapprove Of How Biden Is Handling The Southern Border Crisis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) introduced legislation Thursday that would label drug cartels as Foreign Terror Organizations (FTO) under federal law.Titled the \u201cDrug Cartel Terrorist Designation Act,\u201d Roy\u2019s bill would classify\u00a0the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312334,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2454.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Rep. 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