“We need to start thinking about these groups more like ISIS* than we do the mafia,” Waltz, said in an interview for US media.
“The cartels are war with us – poisoning more than 80,000 Americans with fentanyl every year, creating a crisis at our border, and turning Mexico into a failed narco-state. It’s time we directly target them. My legislation will put us at war with the cartels by authorizing the use of military force against the cartels. We cannot allow heavily armed and deadly cartels to destabilize Mexico and import people and drugs into the United States. We must start treating them like ISIS – because that is who they are.”
“The administration is not considering military action in Mexico,” “Designating these cartels as foreign terrorist organizations would not grant us any additional authorities that we don’t already have."