White House opposes designating drug cartels as terrorist organizations – IOTW Report

White House opposes designating drug cartels as terrorist organizations

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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. more

15 Comments on White House opposes designating drug cartels as terrorist organizations

  1. “hindered the ability of drug traffickers to hide their assets from the U.S. government”
    How many of the name brand banks are laundering the cartels money?
    All of them.

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  2. How about designating the Pfizer, Moderna, AstroZenica, and Johnson & Johnson as lethal drug cartels? They have the entire US government as enforcers and killed WAY more people WORLDWIDE than Sinola could ever even DREAM of, and have MUCH more ruthless kingpins besides…

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  3. 150,000 US deaths per year from Fentanyl, opiates and other drugs coming in from the “OPEN” Southern Border, Kidnappings, drug wars in the US, tortures, murders, thousands wounded, families and properties destroyed.

    And Biden is pissing in the wind, wondering why his shoes and pants are getting wet.
    Is it just incurable incompetence or he doesn’t give a damn about US Citizens?
    $100’s of Billions of US tax dollars to Ukraine and all we get at home are meaningless “words” and NO action.
    The Department of State and Defense are as worthless and incompetent as Biden.

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