Sen. said. Lindsey GrahamRS.C., made a plea across the aisle for Democrats to work with him, not fight him, to end the cartels that are fueling America’s drug crisis in “One Nation.”
Sen. LINDSEY GRAHAM: Last year, 106,000 people in America died of overdoses, 70,000 from fentanyl alone. It all comes from Mexican drug cartels working with Chinese suppliers. I want to break the back of these drug cartels, and the assignment of a foreign terrorist organization will change the game. This would allow us as a country to go after the Chinese suppliers to the drug cartels, take them to US court. Without an FTO designation, we have no tools at our disposal against China. Part of China’s problem. I want to break the back of these cartels with a military force if needed.
SAYS REP. ROY INTRODUCES BILL TO DESIGNATE MEXICAN CARTELS AS FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS
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I call on my Democratic colleagues to step up their game and work with Republicans to stop the 2 to 4 million people coming to our country illegally. Policy changes made by the Biden administration that move away from Trump’s policies have led to the idea that if you arrived in America illegally, you will never leave. Sending air marshals to the border makes the skies safer. It’s crazy. This is stupidity. So I’m going to ask my Democratic colleagues: Work with me to do the drug cartels poisoning Americans, killing 70,000 Americans last year, foreign terrorist organizations, so we can have more tools to go after them and channel who’s helping them and work with me to create an authorization to use of the military force of the American military to bring down these labs. I’m asking you to work with me. Don’t fight me. And to every Republican considering running for president, I hope you get on board with what I’m trying to do.