Posted on 09/25/2022 9:42:06 AM PDT by mabarker1
Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, took a hardline stance against the drug cartels pouring across the southern border into the U.S. this week, officially labeling them terrorists. Abbott wrote on Twitter that Executive Order GA-42 directed the Texas Department of Public Safety to “take immediate action to disrupt the cartel & gang activity.”
Greg Abbott
@GregAbbott_TX
Governor candidate, TX Fentanyl is a clandestine killer, & Texans are victimized by Mexican cartels that produce & import it.
Today, I issued an Executive Order designating cartels as terrorist organizations & directed @TxDPS to take immediate action to disrupt cartel & gang activity. 4:42 PM · Sep 21, 2022 ·Twitter Web App
According to a report from The Gateway Pundit, the executive order is fairly broad, instructing the Texas Department of Public Safety to establish a Mexican Cartel Division in the Texas Fusion Center, as well as identify, arrest, and “impede” gangs in the Lone Star State that may support drug and human trafficking.
“I also sent a letter to the Biden Admin. classify Mexican drug cartels operating in Texas as terrorist organizations,” the governor said on Twitter. “Texas is stepping up to get these gangs & deadly drugs off our streets.”
Per Breitbart, Abbott’s letter to Washington D.C. took aim at Biden’s inaction at the border and requested that his administration designate the Sinaloa and New Generation Cartels as terrorist organizations.
The governor wrote:
“Mexican drug cartels terrorize the United States and its citizens every day, leaving thousands of dead bodies in their wake. Their latest weapons of choice are the millions of tiny pills laced with fentanyl that they pour across our southern border. As a result, it is necessary, now more than ever, for you to designate the Sinaloa Cartel, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, and any similarly situated Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).” Abbott has drawn attention to the failed immigration policies of Biden’s administration by sending illegal immigrants to Democrat-run cities around the nation. Per RSBN, Abbott sent migrants into places like Washington D.C., New York City, and Chicago to illustrate the unsustainability of allowing millions of people to cross the border.
I’ve had me suspicions that Pelosi is also on the take from the cartels.
What does “labeling them terrorists” mean when you don’t shoot to kill? Or are we welcoming terrorists now?
Why did he wait so long.
sounds like the Keri Lake plan for AZ
Bkmk
Took him long enough but better late than never.
“Why did he wait so long?”
My thought as well. This should have
been done as soon as Trump’s policies
we’re cast off. Thousands have died
in the US from fentynal overdose in
the last two years.
start by peeling their tats off wi a dull knife...
The FBI could do the same, but they’re not. They’re priorities are the same as the White House.
Abbott is a national treasure.
I do not think he can actually do that legally.
Merely change the LABELS!!??!!
That’s too simple and too focused.
C'mon folks!
I think he can.
Many of us do not CARE if it’s ‘legal’, as long as it’s STOPPED!
If Biden can call us “semi fascist” we can call “semi cartel.”
Don’t take it that I’m faulting Abbott
for moving slowly on this issue. Republicans
in congress should have voiced opposition
to Biden’s immigration policies from the
start. They’ve been very quiet about what’s
taking place at our border.
‘very quiet’ seems to equate to “gonadless”.
I’m thinking there’s more to this story
other than a bunch of geldings running
the show. Huge profits are being raked
in with the current regime. On both sides.
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