Posted on 03/08/2023 5:58:25 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced it would not support efforts to brand Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, indicating such a move would provide little value in combatting their operations.
"Designating these cartels as FTOs (foreign terrorist organizations) would not grant us any additional authorities that we don't really have at this time. The United States has powerful sanctions authorities specifically designated to combat narcotics trafficking organizations and the individuals and entities that enable them," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Wednesday.
"In the last few months alone Treasury has announced a series of actions against cartels that are dangerous to the public safety and we have also taken action that further enables Treasury to sanction foreign persons," she continued, adding that such efforts had hindered the ability of drug traffickers to hide their assets from the U.S. government.
Many Republicans have called on the Biden administration to label the cartels as FTOs, including Sens. Lindsey Graham, S.C., and John Kennedy, La., who have introduced legislation to designate nine Mexican gangs as FTOs and authorize the use of military force against them.
"It's time now to get serious and use all of the tools in the toolbox. Not just in the prosecution lane, not just in the law enforcement lane, but in the military lane as well," Graham said of the proposal.
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Anarcho-tyranny kills.
Hunter’s buddies
😏$$$$$$$$$$. Too much to mess with.
Wow! I didn’t know FJB gets money from the Cartels as well as CCP.
Probably because they’re on the payroll for 10%!
Then designate THE White Basement as a a foreign [CCP run] terrorist org.
The REAL terrorist organizations?
Baptist church?
Boy Scouts?
Los Angeles Garden Club?
Wait, I know, The League of Trump voters!
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Yes, they look more like a pharmaceutical company to Democrats.
All on the same team?
Why didn’t the President prior to Biden designate the cartels as FTOs? Or the one before him? Or the one before him?
They’re such nice, warm folks unlike those dastardly sneaky white supremacist Deplorables who are definitely domestic terrorists.
Maybe the cartels are the source of some of those huge sums going the democratic candidates each election cycle.
Ya think?
Let's call Fast and Furious what it is. State-sponsored terrorism.
On this side of the border it's violations of the RICO Act. In Mexico and Honduras it's state-sponsored terrorism.
What else would you call heavily arming international criminal syndicates within a foreign country wherein that country is in a death struggle with those syndicates?
Especially when it goes beyond thousands of assault rifles to include grenades, RPGs, shoulder fired rockets, anti-aircraft guns, night vision equipment, body armor and special deals to bring their drugs onto our soil with legal impunity?
Not to mention that the rip crew that killed BP Agent Brian Terry was there with DEA and FBI assistance and approval to attack and kill a rival cartel's smuggling crew.
Let's not leave out the DEA laundering millions of dollars for the drug cartels by setting up bank accounts for them that they otherwise couldn't do.
It's organized, it is spread through every Federal LEA and it violates numerous domestic laws and numerous statutes and treaties that deal with foreign nations. Yet none of it has been officially sanctioned. It's the FedGov acting like mafiosa.
DHS Complicit In Drug Cartel Human Trafficking
CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel
businessinsider Jan. 13, 2014
0bama, Holder and Hillary Clinton are all deeply involved in this and it is state-sponsored terrorism. These criminal thugs are dragging our country down to the level of Tehran and Pyongyang.
Updated entry...
Report: Homeland Security Officials Took Millions in Bribes to 'Look the Other Way' on Drug Cartels December 31, 2016
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Is it any different now than when 0bama was running things?
I wonder how many or our illustrious DC politicians are NOT on that gravy train?
Dopers are a politician’s best friends.
why would the white house want to label their bosses as terrorists?
the cartels are part of the deep state
The cartels are supplying lots of cash and lots of drugs to DC.
It’s the Joe-Joe Clown Show!!
A place where one can watch as the jokes just write themselves!!!!
And now for our glorious clown host, it’s Joey!!!!
Go Joey, Go!!!....(Just don’t “go” without your diaper on, ok?)
Of course, Obozo and Biden don’t want to lose the laundered money they may be raking in.
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