Texas Governor Greg Abbott designated specific Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations and ordered the Department of Public Safety to begin dismantling their infrastructure.
“Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday designated Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations and ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) to establish a Mexican cartel division.
In an executive order, Abbott said that Mexican cartels are responsible for trafficking hundreds of millions of lethal doses of fentanyl into Texas and the United States and that 1,600 Texans were fatally poisoned by drugs containing fentanyl in 2021, ‘an increase of more than 680% since 2018’.
The governor also said that Mexican cartels smuggle humans across the Texas-Mexico border and generate ‘deadly violence’.
Citing powers vested in him by the U.S. constitution and laws of the state of Texas, Abbott designated the Sinaloa Cartel, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and ‘any similarly situated Mexican drug cartels who may be identified in subsequent proclamations’ as ‘foreign terrorist organizations’.
In one incident last month, U.S. border authorities seized US $11.5 million worth of cocaine in Laredo, Texas. According to CBP South Texas officials, fentanyl seizures increased by 1,066% and cocaine seizures increased 98% in fiscal year 2021.
He said that the designation would ‘target [cartels] for enhanced apprehension, prosecution, and disruption, while heightening awareness of their deadly activities for our citizens and the international community’.
Abbott ordered the DPS to ‘establish a Mexican Cartel Division within the Texas Fusion Center to collect and analyze intelligence that will enable further apprehension, prosecution, and disruption of these foreign terrorist organizations’.
Among six other orders, he directed the DPS to ‘identify, arrest, and impede the gangs in Texas that support the drug and human smuggling operations of these foreign terrorist organizations’.
The Texas Tribune described the governor’s designation as ‘largely symbolic’ because Texas doesn’t have terrorism-related statutes”. -Mexico News Daily
It will be interesting to observe if Americans will start to change their thinking on drug legalization once the drug cartels begin getting involved in turf wars throughout Hispanic communities across the American Southwest.
According to the Justice Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center, Mexican drug cartels were actively operating in 50 different U.S. cities in 2006. By 2010, that number had skyrocketed to 1,286.
These are only some of the known costs of immigration while most of the supposed benefits resulting from this free movement of labor are, in fact, also adverse to the interests of most American citizens.
And, although the emphasis on both sides of the political aisle is centered around curbing “illegal” immigration, the actual problems of immigration do not hinge upon the legal or illegal status of the immigrants coming in.
It’s the numbers that truly matter.
A few death-dealing Mexican cartels invading the U.S. is relatively harmless for the country as a whole, despite all the crime and drugs they bring with them.
However, tens of millions of so-called migrants “peacefully” emigrating to America, on the other hand, has proven to be tremendously ruinous for the nation entirely.