Attorneys general to Biden: Treat drug cartels like terrorists

Attorneys general from multiple U.S. states have accused Joe Biden of providing on “an anemic response” to the catastrophic destruction from Mexican drug cartels that is costing “hundreds of thousands of American lives each year.”

They are insisting that Biden start treating the crime organizations, including the Sinaloa Cartel, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and others, as “foreign terrorist organizations.”

“The cartels’ intense violence goes far beyond mere resistance to interference with their drug trafficking and now encompasses a general effort to intimidate rivals and expand their influence. This violence, which necessarily involves using firearms and explosives to kill security forces, plainly constitutes terrorist activity,” the letter, organized by Virginia AG Jason Miyares explained.

It also was signed by officials for Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.

A report in The Federalist described the letter demanding the FTO designation for drug dealers as “a bid to rectify the chaos caused by President Joe Biden’s open border policies.”

The letter also went to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

The coalition insists the terrorist designation is needed so that state and federal law enforcement agencies would be given “increased powers to freeze cartel assets, deny entry to cartel members, and allow prosecutors to pursue tougher punishments against those who provide material support to the cartels.”…