Kevin McCarthy: Designate Cartels as Terrorist Groups, Time to ‘Embed Some Military’ on Border to Fight Them; McCarthy Endorses Designating Cartels as Terrorists, Using Military at Southern Border

Kevin McCarthy: Designate Cartels as Terrorist Groups, Time to ‘Embed Some Military’ on Border to Fight Them

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News that it is time to “embed some military” on the U.S. border with Mexico to fight the Mexican drug cartels.

McCarthy’s comments came during an exclusive long-form video interview taped last month in the ceremonial U.S. House Speaker’s office just off the House floor. The interview, the latest installment in the Breitbart News On the Hill video series, touched on many topics including immigration and the border, but also confronting the Chinese Communist Party, the debt ceiling, and McCarthy’s decision to release January 6 surveillance tapes earlier this year.

Asked about the incident which happened just before this interview where four Americans were kidnapped by cartels in Mexico, McCarthy noted that “two were murdered” and “it wasn’t far from the border.”

McCarthy then affirmed he believes the Mexican drug cartels should be formally designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. government.

“I think you have to designate them,” McCarthy said when asked if the U.S. should designate the cartels as terrorist groups.

“We do not have operational control of our border,” McCarthy added. “For anyone in America that’s been down there — I want to give credit to Gov. Abbott. It shouldn’t be his job to secure the border. But he has to put effort into it. You look what has gone on. These cartels are making billions of dollars human trafficking, right? But they’re using weapons. They’re shooting. We’ve watched in broad daylight what they would do with not respect for life or for Americans.”

What’s more, asked about a proposal from former President Donald Trump to use the U.S. military to combat the cartels, McCarthy endorsed the idea broadly that the United States should “embed some military” so as to use Pentagon technology to fight the cartels. —>READ MORE HERE

McCarthy Endorses Designating Cartels as Terrorists, Using Military at Southern Border:

Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has endorsed the idea of designating drug cartels as terrorist organizations and embedding at least “some” military forces at the border to facilitate efforts to secure the U.S. border against those cartels.

McCarthy discussed ways to combat the cartel during an interview last month with Breitbart News, which the publication released on Wednesday. Breitbart News discussed border security issues with McCarthy in the days after a group of four U.S. citizens were kidnapped, two of whom were killed in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas.

When Breitbart News host Matthew Boyle asked McCarthy about the idea of designating cartel organizations as foreign terrorist organizations, the House speaker replied, “I think you have to designate them.”

“You look what has gone on. These cartels are making billions of dollars human trafficking, right?” McCarthy added. “But they’re using weapons, they’re shooting. We’ve watched in broad daylight what they would do with no respect for life or for Americans.”

Boyle then raised the idea of the U.S. military being deployed in some way against the cartel, noting that former President Donald Trump had already endorsed the idea of using U.S. military forces to combat the cartels “just as we took down ISIS and the ISIS caliphate.”

“I’ve met with the border agents many times. I think we’re going to have to embed some military to allow that technology to help secure it,” McCarthy told Boyle.

The Trump administration did deploy National Guard troops at the border during his presidency, and those troops provided aviation, engineering, surveillance, communications, vehicle maintenance, and logistical support. National Guard troop deployments have continued at the border in the years since. —>READ MORE HERE

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