Abbott has a lot to say in letter sent to President Biden
Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to the Biden administration, and demanded that the federal government classify Mexican drug cartels — such as the Los Zetas, Sinaloa, and the Gulf Cartel — as foreign terrorist operations. In the letter addressed to President Biden and Vice President Harris, Abbott commanded that immediate action needed to be taken to fight the dangerous and deadly Mexican drug cartels that terrorize our communities.
On Thursday, Abbott brought up how the Mexican drug cartel sneak drugs and weapons into the U.S. to fund their illegal businesses. Not only that, but they force women and children into sex trafficking. They murder innocents, even women and children.
The Texas governor wrote in the letter how the drug cartels are terrorist operations, and it’s time for the federal government to classify them as such. This was also the fourth letter he has written to the Biden admin.
Abbott indicated that the Biden administration could classify Mexican drug cartels as terrorist operations under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. In order for a group to be classified a foreign terrorist operation: The organization takes part in terrorist activity, or keeps the ability and intention to take part in terrorist activity or terrorism, and the terrorist activity or terrorism of the operation threatens the security of United States nationals or the national security of the United States.
In 2019, the Trump administration classified the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including its Quds Force, as a foreign terrorist organization in line with Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Last month, Abbott stated that Texas had started Operation Lone Star to fight the sneaking of people and drugs into Texas, which has been intensified by the current border crisis.
“The Operation integrates DPS with the Texas National Guard and deploys air, ground, marine, and tactical border security assets to high threat areas to deny Mexican Cartels and other smugglers the ability to move drugs and people into Texas,” Abbott said.
The Texas governor put the blame on the immense increase of migrants across the southern U.S. border on the Biden administration. He claims the crisis at the southern border intensifies because of the Biden admin policies reject to control the border and continue to welcome illegal immigration.
“Texas supports legal immigration but will not be an accomplice to the open border policies that cause, rather than prevent, a humanitarian crisis in our state and endanger the lives of Texans. We will surge the resources and law enforcement personnel needed to confront this crisis.”
Also in March, Abbott stated that Border Patrol agents told him that drug cartels are getting wealthy because of Biden’s “open borders policies.”
“They also said that the reason for the change, the reason for the increase and the influx is because of the policy change by the Biden administration,” Abbott told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo. “More importantly, though is … Border Patrol officers told me that the Biden administration policies, they are enriching and they are empowering the drug cartels in Mexico, who make money off of the people that they assist in smuggling them into the state of Texas.”
“The cartels make money off of these migrants that you and your viewers see on TV,” Abbott continued. “They also told me about the escalating numbers of the people coming across the border.”
Abbott said that Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley sector captured “seventy-eight sex offenders, and sixty-two gang members, which include MS-13 gangs.”
Abbott has been an direct critic of the Biden administration’s way of handling the migrant crisis, saying the detainment of unattended adolescents has been an “abject failure.”
In March, Abbott said the Biden Administration has been an cringing failure when it comes to making sure the unattended adolescents who cross our border are safe. The conditions that unattended adolescents endure in these federally run facilities is unacceptable and inhumane.
He also said that the crisis is being made worse because the Biden admin is inviting more kids to enter Texas, or crossing the border and falling victim to the Mexican cartels.