Brindisi Introduces Legislation to Crack Down on
Illegal Drug Cartels
From the office of Rep.
Anthony Brindisi:
Congressman Anthony
Brindisi and Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick introduced the bipartisan
Identifying Drug Cartels as Terrorists Act. This bipartisan legislation would
list seven Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs), as
defined by section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
The Gulf Cartel, the
Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the Beltran Leyva Cartel, the Juarez Cartel, the
Los Zetas Cartel, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the Tijuana Cartel have been
described by the Drug Enforcement Administration as the most prominent in
Mexico.
This designation will
allow the United States to direct the resources necessary to dismantle them,
ending their reigns of terror, and help to end the flow of drugs coming across
our southern border, which fuels the addiction epidemic in our communities.
“Illegal drugs are
terrorizing our communities and it is time we called these drug cartels what they
are: terrorists,” Brindisi said. “So many families have been torn apart by
drugs and these cartels are committing heinous criminal acts. Identifying these
traffickers as terrorists will give our law enforcement more tools to crack
down on bad actors at our southern border and around the world. Securing our
border and stemming the flow of illegal drugs is paramount to our national
security and the health of our nation. I am excited to work with my friend
Congressman Fitzpatrick to do just that.”
“Mexican drug cartels
control the territory along our Southwest Border, spreading drugs and crime,
across Mexico and into the United States. These criminal organizations are a
menace to society, and we need to do everything in our power to continue to
fight them. That is why I am introducing this legislation, to officially designating
these criminals as foreign terrorist organizations,” said Fitzpatrick. “These
criminals bring illegal narcotics, commit atrocious acts of violence, and
smuggle humans across our border. They harm lives every day, and it is time we
call them what they are: terrorists. I thank my friend Congressman Brindisi for
joining me in introducing this hard-hitting and bipartisan legislation, and I
will continue to work to see this bill become law.”
The seven cartels
listed above meet the criteria for being engaged in terrorist activity by
committing hijacking, sabotage, detention, murder, and assaulting innocent
people.
Once the Department of
State labels a group as an FTO, known members are banned from entering the
United States, and it also becomes illegal for Americans to intentionally
support these groups.
Financial institutions
are also prohibited from conducting any business with the organizations,
members or associates. Under current laws, these cartels are listed as drug
trafficking organizations (DTOs), despite the fact that they are involved in a
wide range of criminal operations, exceeding the illegal drug trade.
These crimes include
fraud, weapons trafficking, bribery, money laundering, extortion,
counterfeiting, and smuggling.
While several cartels
have been labeled as Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs), the TCO and
DTO designations do not give law enforcement the appropriate tools to challenge
the cartels, as opposed to official FTOs such as the Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda.
They need to start with the worst ones like the viagras, Los rojos, la familia Michoacana and the rest of those small extortion gangs in Guerrero.
ReplyDeleteBro they are submerged in the heroin trade! Have you seen how they line up in Chicago to buy this stuff? It looks like black friday sale out there! im all up for Guerrero bieng cleaned up but truth is Guerrero is the 2 lowest in literacy and education. Who ever comes next will not have a hard time taking over. As far back as I remember Gerrero has always been involved in Narco wars, but now they are backed up by these big organized powerful cartels. But hey the good ole U S of A are here to help now, what can go wrong?
DeletePosing Hezbollah as Terrorists, and also putting MX cartels and Hezbollah is one of the stupidest thing the us can do. Atleast everyone knows that us is lapdog of israel
ReplyDeleteThis is easily one of the stupidest comments ever posted on bb.
DeleteSome incredibly ignorant comments running over this.
DeleteWhat are you talking about, Willis?
DeleteAbout time or shall we say
Delete= Way past time!!!!!????
Im not the smartest person, but does this mean they can come to Mexico just like the middle east?
DeleteMulti middle eastern terror cells get smuggled into US by the cartels too frequently .. sure they get paid to but they aid and abet terrorists regularly and generally hate El Norte on ideological grounds anyway.
DeleteExactly correct. This is to give legal cover to the US to use their drones on Mexican citizens. I have a hard time seeing Mexicans let that happen.
Delete@1/15/20 6:23 pm: I gotta disagree on that comment. Only in movies or infomercials do cartels do that. Why would they help terror orgs. blow up their cash cow? Also do you know how many relatives, friends, and employees they have in U.S.?
DeleteIt's about time....
ReplyDeleteThey should had done that during 70's, 80's when drug cartels started mass murdering people. We would not have those drug traficking terrorist organizations nowadays.
DeleteIdiotic DEA, FBI, CIA, let those mexican criminals organizations get huge right in their own back yard. Now we are at the point of where those mexican terrorists post a serious national security threat to the USA, lots of american lives are at risk.
Instead we got the War on Drugs, Controlled Substance Act and Crack Coacaine Law. Cause and effect maybe? Jimmy Carter for President!
Delete10:41....You have a lot to learn. It's kind of cute actually. The whole "red white and blue" "everything is black or white" thing you've got going on.
DeleteNo intervention I'm not gone let it happen and im ready to defend my beloved country of any foreign invasion....if a foreign enemy should dare
ReplyDeleteTo defile your ground with his step,
Think, oh beloved Motherland! that heaven
Gave you a soldier in each son.
Amen to that!!
DeleteBut you are ok with the criminals that murder 30,000 of your people every year...you do nothing to defend against them.
DeleteYes, because idiots would rather have their families raped and murdered by cartels then to have the US help apprehend them.
DeleteYou’re stupidly is why the cartels are winning.
you are ready to defend your beloved country from foreign invasion pleaaaase, no wonder your country is such a shithole with hundreds of thousands dead you can't even defend it from your locals killing your own
DeleteYou will be crushed if it happens.
DeleteIn the meantime shootings at schools, public places, churches,etc continue n no "American" can stop them but they try to put order in a foreign country while innocent people die in their beloved homeland....what a joke these so called "Patriots" have become
DeleteThe U.S should focus on it's own problems.
DeleteStart off with the invasion of La Mana in your family's town.
DeleteFuck yeah lol
ReplyDeleteAll of them are going down. Finally
@11:10 you got that right!!! Except the part where they go down
DeleteJajaja USA IS going to go broke.... In the end nothing will get better only worse for Mexico with more violence and extortion for the common people... Gtfoh
DeletePlease explain to me how they are going down all this means is there designated as terrorists on paper no US troops will ever go to Mexico and do anything about it let's be real
DeleteLol time for the take over ...come on be realistic with out legalization it's a lost cause ...to many fiends, money a,product
ReplyDeleteIf anything they will disolve the cartels and run things them selves not as a cohesive unit but I sure someone will see a opportunity
I think the U.S. is underestimating the cartels power not to mention a rush to pull the trigger. Surprise, surprise.
DeleteThis will help the asylum seekers. They will be able to say they are running from "Terrorists" and qualify for entry into the US much easier.
ReplyDeleteIt’s a strategy to have US bases in Mexico to prevent perhaps Russia and China from getting too close like Russia is in South America. I don’t necessarily believe they will be doing anything with cartels maybe so but there’s another benefit.
ReplyDeleteWhat's crazy is U.S. military and Border Patrol agents ( not all ) are on the payroll of some cartels.
DeleteSo if you intentionally purchase drugs knowing it comes from carteles you are guilty of supporting an FTO? interesting.
ReplyDeleteThe users in the American support the Cartels, and we suffer were rich Americans can get high. Use American army stop drug users in America.
DeleteAt 8:14, I live in Mexico, for decades, and see every day that Mexicans rich and poor "get high." Man up and take responsibility for your own. Yes, all users everywhere support the cartels.
DeleteIm tired of hearing this bs that the demand for drugs is the sole reason for drug addiction and the horrors in Latin America specifically Mexico. Dumping a ton of any drug on ANY population will CREATE addiction. Nobody was asking for fentanyl until it was shoved in the faces of drug users. 10% of ANY mammals have the propensity for addiction. Mice...monkeys... human beings are no different in this regard, thus the solution to the problem is slightly more complex than blaming the addict/user. Look a little deeper if you’re more than a simpleton with an IQ above 80. I’ll assume you’re capable of that
DeleteThe Sackler family saw the money making opportunity from creating the opioid epidemic. Lobbyied and got laws passed, and then passed on the torch to mexican dtos when they could not keep the US legally flooded and supolied with their product, but they knew where their orphaned customers were and who would keep them supplied.
DeleteOf course, there would lots of money prosecuting and persecuting and incarcerating the mexican drug trafficking terroristas! Harlem Shake here, please...
Defining cartels as terrorist organizations does not mean the US will just cross the border and attack Mexico. It allows the US to take more action along the border...which is needed. A wall ain’t gonna work. So...for all the cartel cheer leaders...this doesn’t mean the US is invading your home land. And even if the US did invade...Mexicans wouldn’t do anything anyhow. Except maybe try to wash the humvee windows or sell corn to the soldiers!
ReplyDeleteTypical Blind American militard response. People like you always boast the same way but then when you actually go to war you come back crying about your dead occupier friends or because you get maimed our burned. That’s if you’re even lucky enough to not come back in a flag draped coffin. Funny how they expect to come back expecting everyone to praise them and thank them for their service yet none of them even know who they’re even serving. I’ll tell you one thing, they sure aren’t serving America
DeleteI have a feeling it could get ugly on US side. As long time connections will be dismantled and some people "erasing" any connection they have to anybody down south. Heads will roll.
ReplyDeleteJust starts another cartel with a new name then you can't be a target...
ReplyDeleteno. these are just the names of who would qualify under the legislation....additions can be made
DeleteThe govt will likely also include birth and alias names for key cartel members, so it matters less the organisation they represent
Delete@11:35 you have valid points.
ReplyDeleteAs long as we're prepared for the economic impact that comes with labeling individuals involved with these organizations as FTOs.
ReplyDeleteThey need stiffer punishment an sentence for corrupt Mexican politicians..I imagine genaro Garcia will get a cush deal
ReplyDeleteWow... a delusional racist Mexican. Please dont have any kids.
ReplyDeleteDon’t forget the US military there’s a lot of Latinos/Hispanics that get discriminated against even if they’re US born. A lot of blacks on YouTube keep making stuff up about they are the first and real Natives. In LA stupid Chicanos making peace treaties with black gangs talking about everything is cool, yeah right!
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting after decades of drug consumption in the US that such categorization is applied. Despite Big Pharma companies contributing to this epidemic without conviction nor oversight because of its political powers. Rather, the infinite amount of money that pharmaceutical companies & their lobbyists pump into our politicians pockets.
ReplyDeleteTruth
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But them being terrorist would make the US making any type of coraperation illegals wouldn’t it?
ReplyDeleteHow active is BLO?
ReplyDeletelowkey nowadays
Delete6:58 Rodolfo "Gato" Villareal runs San Pedro Garza Garcia. Mexico's richest city. I assume they have control in other parts of Nuevo Leon.
DeleteA friend just came back from Nayarit and he says that BLO still runs most of the state unlike what people think. That they were absorbed by CJNG.
DeleteIt's 2020 get out of here with that bullshit. A race war where they are killing off their own people by the thousands!
ReplyDeleteAs a Mexican, there is it more racism in Mexico than in the US.
If they are going to say cárteles a terrorist then they should have no problem with charging all the Americans who get caught buying and doing drugs with supporting terrorist that’s a real serious crime that should be punished with federal prison cause all the Millions and millions of Americans money is used to fund terrorist activities such as buying weapons to kill thousands of people right it’s like when they blame a county for secretly supporting a terrorist organization with weapons and money to fight theirs some kind of sanctions
ReplyDelete@1:23, your thoughts are classic, a lesson in the history of fascism, so I'm glad that your diatribe was included in the BB comments so that we can all see anew the errant basal thought process that exist in some consciousness, just like Hitler's regime. And I think that you need a good daddy spanking.
ReplyDeleteIt wont wont happen so easy, alot of laws will have to be rewritten especially immigration. If they only label them as terrorists and treat them like terrorist, way too many people can come to the USA as refugees from terrorists.
ReplyDeleteI can see this getting nasty if it becomes a reality, it will be too confusing. Thats why I think it would probably not make it. Unlike traditional terrorists groups, Cartels are driven by money, they are deeply rooted in the economy, their money gets passed through legit bussiness, many banks are known to have accounts belonging to cartel leaders, so are these banks going to be fined? Will money laundering now mean funding a terrorist organization? Whatabout someone getting caught buying their fix, dispensaries buying from illegal growers, will they be charged for funding terrorists groups? Or anyone caught on a raid because they would sell 20s, will alot of people labeled terrorists and be in court fighting that label aswell? Most drugs in the US are said to be from mexico and most people caught selling in the us are assumed to be working with cartels right away. Operations like fast and furious will make the government look even worse for arming terrorists. The Government also says they dont negotiate with terrorists, so does that mean no more sweet deals to narco snitches and no more protective witness to cartel bosses that snitch????
ReplyDeleteyou are asking the correct questions, at the end its the same as always, just more guns. We will see it during the Genario Garcia Luna Trial-just a slap.
DeleteBaffled by your ignorance
ReplyDeleteAwesome. Start with erradicating the cjng. No one likes the cjng. They kill babies and the elderly
ReplyDeleteSo does Juarez... Juarez Cartel is perhaps one of the most ruthless organizations, yet no one bashes on them .. la linea is a POS... Y Puro Chihuahua compas pero lejos de esas lacras!
Deleteso do the snitchaloas and zetas so what is your point you bafoon?? that's because you don't have one
Delete@4:28 Juarez Cartel is a small cartel, they don't control anything outside of Chihuahua so they defend their plazas maybe try to take over towns and small places like that but Los Zetas, Sinaloa, Cjng, Golfos all these cartels have expanded outside their state to start wars and grow if anything Juarez is the least Ruthless cartel compare to other cartels
Delete10:16 Juarez cartel is as of today the third largest cartel in Mexico after Jalisco and Sinaloa FYI.
Delete"Small" is a subjective term.
They can be small in territory but big in drug sales.
They do not kill babies however like Sinaloa huntthuggers like to say.
Se necesitará más que ruido de la gobernación para reparar el daño a mi alma por la persecución del dr. Mireles Pasó por nuestro pueblito y persiguió a todos los sicarios de la costa rural de Michoacán. La gente mala huyó aterrorizada, excepto los legisladores en Morelia. Hasta que esto suceda no habrá cambios.
ReplyDelete-Desde Tierra Caliente-
No, pos ora si, se van a andar metiendo la verga màs seguido el gobierno y los sicarios de todos los pinches carteles.
DeleteSuena bien lo que dice, pero mas alla de la costa, no se sabia ni quienes eran quienes. Ni Gobierno, ni mana, ni Mireles. Puras camionetas rotuladas con gente armada y causas distintas. Animo gente cada dia somos mas los que estamos cansados!
DeleteDoesn't an organization have to have an ideology to be a terrorist group? The cartels have no ideology beyond making money selling drugs(and occasionally other stuff). We designate groups as terrorists because they are willing to wage war against the USA or its allies for their beliefs. Cartels don't wage war against Mexico because of some greater cause, they do so to make money for themselves.
ReplyDeleteOh you are a fool. Drug cartel terrorists have been and are already waging war against the USA they kill tens of thousands of Americans with their drugs every year. Also don't forget mexican cartels are responsible for north american gangs getting out of control in many us cities, because those narco terrorists provide them the dope to sell on the streets, creating more violence like in Chicago! Mexican criminals hate the USA dumbo!
DeleteIn the old days it was business only each kept to their own turfs and today it's greed and everybody wants to move into others turf and people getting dismembered what the hell is everyone is on coke and meth: everyone has pushed their luck so everyone has to go down for killing Americans so screw all of the above ignorant comments .
ReplyDeleteAll these dummies getting mad over what 1:23 wrote but it’s all true.
ReplyDelete1:23 race wars called for by whites and aryan nation members marching for blood and land
ReplyDeleteare a matter of fact, with martyrs like Tim McVeigh and Charles Manson among their heros with no mexican supremacist group to be found among or against them...even most white people do not like white supremacists or want to reinforce them, racism is their tool and belongs to them.
Cartels have been working with latin gangs for many years that's how they sell their dope and commit crime in the USA.
ReplyDeleteI really don't think Amlo will allow that
ReplyDeleteMust cartels and drug r good for the economy in the RGV
ReplyDeleteDrug consumers deal with cartels. Label them helping a terrorist organization then. Put them all in jail.
ReplyDeleteCharles Manson was a Liberal, Dumbass.He wanted to start a race war, so people would kill eachother, then there would be less people on earth, to stop Global Warming. They were a bunch of Hippie's.
ReplyDeleteNew niche: Drug Tourism in Mexico.
ReplyDelete