Political Quotes

“I rise in support of our legislation to formally designate the major Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations under Federal law. It would also require the State Department to issue a report to Congress on additional cartels that meet the criteria for foreign terrorist organizations designation and require the Department to designate them as such within 30 days of the report. This bill would give us greater tools to push back against the cartels fueling the White House's deadly open border crisis. This past March, I was honored and proud to lead five Kansas sheriffs to the border to meet with Border Patrol officers and survey the ongoing immigration crisis at our border. With our own eyes, we saw the activities of the major Mexican drug cartels that qualify them for designation as a foreign terrorist organization, as they are transnational entities that engage in textbook terrorist activity, such as kidnapping, assassination, and endangering lives with explosives and firearms. Additionally, these cartels are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans, especially young Americans in their prime. Fentanyl has quickly become the leading cause of death among adults ages 18 to 45. Last year, the number of drug overdose deaths in the United States topped 100,000, with fentanyl being the cause of more than two-thirds of them.…”