After the first initiatives by United States legislators to designate Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations, more have joined in presenting proposals.
In the first days of March, Republican Senator Roger Marshall and Congresswoman Mary E. Miller presented proposals for the State Department to submit a report to Congress for the designation of Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations.
Texts HR1546 and S.698 are not yet available for reading, but they are marked as presented in the Lower House. On the other hand, resolution 216 of which its content can be known calls to designate the cartels as terrorists.
The groups indicated by the proposal They are the Sinaloa Cartel, the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, the Beltrán Leyva Cartel, the Gulf Cartel, the Tijuana Cartel, the Michoacana Family/Knights Templar, the Zetas and “anyone in a similar situation.”
The initiative contemplates listing them as foreign terrorist organizations under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
In addition, it contemplates asking the Biden administration to freeze all financial assets and allow federal prosecutors to pursue criminal sentences that apply to drug traffickers who finance terrorist organizations.