The Sconi

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is defending his move to stamp the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels as terrorist organizations while also urging others to join him in taking such action.

“Cartels are terrorists, and it’s time we treated them that way,” Abbott said in a recent press release about his executive order actions. At approximately the same time, he penned a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, requesting that they follow suit in classifying those cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

“Designation, apprehension, and prosecution would also heighten public awareness of the cartels’ trafficking of deadly fentanyl, while signaling to the international community that the United States will not tolerate terrorists who poison our citizens,” Abbott said in the letter.

Abbott also sent a similar letter to Biden in April of 2021, which he said never garnered a response. Back in June, when the Supreme Court declared Biden’s ending of the Remain in Mexico policy to be constitutional, Abbott also published a statement warning that the decision would open the door to more significant issues related to illegal immigration at some point in time.

“Reinstating and fully enforcing Remain-in-Mexico would deter thousands more migrants from making that deadly trek, and President Biden should take that simple step to secure the border because it is the only humane thing to do,” Abbott said in a press release.

Since October 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has had more than 2.1 million border enforcement encounters, data from the agency showed.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services recently reported that fentanyl overdoses have doubled since 2019. In addition, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that from March 2021 to March 2022 there were more than 1,800 overdose deaths reported across the state.

In its endorsement of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) in his reelection battle against Democrat Mandela Barnes, the National Border Patrol Council branded Barnes a “far-left lieutenant governor” who is backed by anti-police groups that do not support law enforcement, making it clear that Barnes in turn will not provide support for border patrol; a report from the Washington Free Beacon said.

This summer, Johnson attempted to get the Biden administration to reckon with the crisis at the country’s southern border, exhorting the president and vice president to visit the border and view firsthand the results of their policies.

“You witness these depredations,” he said in a June press release. “You experience the profound level of being troubled by what you witnessed. But you must come here and witness it.”